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...arrears to the organization before Washington?s demand to have its dues lowered would be considered. "The European Union wishes to make clear that it will only agree to a reopening of discussions after the United States ... respects its financial obligations under the U.N. Charter," said Luxembourg ambassador Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, which, in diplomatic circles, amounts to a public tongue-lashing...
This clause had existed since the city solicitor in the early 1970s interpreted the city charter to mean that the senior member of the School Committee could serve as mayor in the absence of a vice-chair...
Wolf is currently involved in oversight hearings on charter schools...
Alice L. Turkel, a member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), received the most votes. Robin A. Harris, a sixth grade teacher at the Benjamin Bennaken charter-school, upset incumbent Alfred B. Fantini to give the CCA a two-seat majority on the six-member committee. Joseph G. Grassi, David P. Maher, Susana M. Segat and Denise Simmons also won seats on the committee. The results are expected to be made official tomorrow...
...President supports the creation of more charter schools, which are public schools free of some of the bureaucratic rules that might put a drag on classroom performance. It so happens that charter schools are also acceptable to teachers unions, important Democratic allies that oppose vouchers in part because the private schools they foster generally pay lower salaries than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when...