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...balance that can be struck between democracy and religion. The document that creates the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is based on a system of civil law, but one in which no law may be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of Islam. It embraces the United Nations Charter and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The document sets aside two representatives from each district—25 percent of the lower house—for women, who become equal citizens under the law. On the most contentious issue of ethnic equality, the new constitution recognizes the right of each ethnic...
Thernstrom agreed with Orfield on the need to improve the nation’s schools, but instead of focusing on problem-plagued urban schools, Thernstrom advocated giving parents vouchers that would allow them to enroll their children in private, charter or parochial schools...
...cited KIPP Academy in Bronx, NY, and Frederick Douglass in Newark, NJ as examples of excellent charter schools without a white population, attributing their success to discipline, excellent teaching and more hours devoted to instruction...
...more confident and a lot less fearful about terrorism than people from Bush’s red states. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas was afraid to simply sleep in Manhattan for the upcoming Republican National Convention in New York this September; instead, he planned to charter a cruise shop docked in the Hudson River for himself and his fellow right-wingers. Though the plan was recently dropped due to mounting criticism, it goes to show that fear, according to Republicans like DeLay, is patriotic and that New York is an island of un-American bravery, useful only...
...even before the tougher standards went into effect. Only 23 of the 40 students in the school's first entering class are still there. "SEED looks like a very innovative model, but it is too early to tell," says Nina Rees, a U.S. Department of Education official who studies charter schools. And SEED is expensive. Because of the extra cost of housing students, SEED spends about $24,000 per student, more than double the allotment for the typical D.C. public school...