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Whether the faithful choose to read the glass as half-full or half-empty, the Vatican's negative response to proposals from U.S. Catholic Bishops on handling sexual abuse within the Church is unlikely to resolve the crisis. The Vatican on Friday declined to accept the "Dallas charter" adopted by U.S. bishops, which recommends a zero-tolerance policy that would remove from priestly duties any clergyman who had ever molested a minor, and also requires all sex-abuse charge to be reported to the police. Instead, the Vatican called for further study by a panel of eight clergymen - four appointed...
...this ruling might mean little in states like Michigan and California, whose Supreme Courts have already struck down proposed voucher initiatives, but broadly considered, the ruling brings to the table educational options once stigmatized as unconstitutional. That means greater discussion of other so-called choice-based reforms, like charter schools, inter-district public school choice and tax credits—proposals formerly marginalized for lack of political will. Thus, Zelman has rescued school choice from the depths of think tank research and pushed it to the forefront of public life...
...build social capital in our community,” said education panel attendee Jessica R. Dugan, director of community and business partnerships at the Boston Renaissance Charter School...
...There is a tendency among students at elite colleges to be starters, which is very important, but there also needs to be doers,” said Will Austin ’00, who now serves as a sixth grade mathematics teacher at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School. “That’s why I’m a teacher, and I plan to teach for a long time...
According to the charter school’s brochure, roughly 65 percent of the student body qualifies for free or reduced price lunch...