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...first time since the 1920s, residents will vote directly for mayor, the result of a new city charter adopted in 1999. The next mayor will enjoy a legislative veto, a term of four years instead of two and appointment power over committee chairmen. "People are looking forward to having someone take charge," says George Bishop, a political-science professor at the University of Cincinnati. "But there's ambivalence about whether Luken should be that person...
What country would not do as Israel is doing? How did Russia, guarantor of international norms as a charter member of the Security Council, respond to the bombing of apartment buildings in Moscow, allegedly by Chechen terrorists? By practically destroying Chechnya, razing its capital and killing thousands...
While politicians from Washington on down to your school board have been warring over charter schools and vouchers in recent years, home schooling has quietly outpaced both of those more attention-getting reforms (only half a million kids are in charter schools, and just 65,000 receive vouchers). In many ways, in fact, home schooling has become a threat to the very notion of public education. In some school districts, so many parents are pulling their children out to teach them at home that the districts are bleeding millions of dollars in per-pupil funding. Aside from money, the drain...
...kids to sign up for such offerings as a physics class or the football team. A growing number of districts are opening resource centers where home schoolers come for class once or twice a week. In Orange County, Calif., two school districts have combined two reform ideas by opening charter schools that offer home-schooling programs...
...Disney is pricing diamond rings too, mulling a group effort with cable little-guys Cox Communications and Charter Communications to put it back in the front lines of the content-and-cable combination sweepstakes...