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Founded in 1998 by Eric Adler, 39, and Rajiv Vinnakota, 32, two former management consultants, SEED--its formal name is the Schools for Educational Evolution and Development--is a charter school, which means it receives public funds but operates independently of the school system. Tuition is free for its 310 male and female students in Grades 7 through 12. It is perhaps one of the most innovative and expensive experiments in educating low-income students...
...Metin Munir. "There is not much room, or time, left to maneuver." No Foul Play EGYPT Egyptian and French officials ruled out terrorism as the cause of a plane crash early Saturday that killed all 148 passengers and crew, blaming a technical fault. The Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines was carrying mostly French tourists returning to Paris . It plunged into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said France would do everything it could to help Egypt find out what caused the fault. A report Sunday said Flash Airlines was banned...
...lunch-pail populism. To do so, he had to delete Howard Dean 2.0, who was a militant New Democrat. He abandoned his support for free trade. He now opposes the New Democrat impulse to reform traditional liberal programs like old-age entitlements, public education (Dean is even skeptical about charter schools, a New Dem staple) and affirmative action. Indeed, about the only Clintonian remnant that Dean supports is fiscal conservatism...
...same type of public schools that barred Catholics’ entry or went unfunded when Catholics were admitted have merely collapsed under the weight of today’s urban poor— which are disproportionately ethnic minorities. In their stead, more successful charter schools have been established and, more significantly, voucher programs have been proposed and in some places, established. And even while the Supreme Court declared last year that voucher programs did not violate the U.S. Constitution, the racist-inspired Blaine amendments of many state constitutions are now being wielded against the voucher programs of today...
...Costa Rica trip generates enough interest, they might even need to charter an airplane from Logan Airport...