Word: chavarria
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...Murphy wants the parents to see how successful their children, like Chavarria, can be in school and is hopeful they will further encourage them, through the PTA, to get more involved in their education. While she knows that the more involved parents are, the better their children will perform, she also is acutely aware that many of her students are where they are now at least partly because of a lack of attention. With this is mind, she didn't know what to expect when she sent out invitations to the open house. Already more than 80% of the parents...
...toned brown building across a grassy field from his cottage named "Esperanza," Spanish for hope. In April, he will receive his adult sentence, which he has already pleaded down from a possible life term to anywhere from 1 to 30 years - and is trying to negotiate even further downward. Chavarria arrived at Foothill unable to read, spell or understand math. Now he is in the 9th grade with the hope that he can convince authorities to let him stay at Foothill until he is 21 and earn his GED before he is transferred to an adult facility. "I'm getting...
...Jose Chavarria, 19, is looking forward to the open house and a chance to see his mother and 2-year-old daughter, who are planning to travel 200 miles from their home in Roswell (many of the parents live equally long distances from the school). When he was 17, at the time already a low-level drug dealer for five years, Chavarria shot and wounded a man approaching his car as he was sitting in traffic. Two weeks later, before being apprehended, he shot and killed a woman whom he and his friends feared were going to rat them...
Angela Palacios Chavarria, 31, a barefoot Nicaraguan peasant, can explain in two words why she voted for Violeta Chamorro's National Opposition Union (U.N.O.) over the Marxist Sandinistas ten weeks ago. "Lapas verdes" (greenbacks) says Palacios, voicing a common opinion that a vote for the U.N.O. was a vote for U.S.-financed prosperity. Surely, this argument goes, since Washington spent $312 million over nine years to bankroll the contra rebellion and another $9 million to back Chamorro's campaign, it will now lay out as many lapas verdes as necessary to rebuild Nicaragua's ravaged economy and keep its friends...
...four girls and a boy, one girl stillborn, the others expected to live); after taking a fertility drug following five years of childless marriage; in Brooklyn. Two days later, Maria Flores de Ortiz, 28, the wife of a Mexican farm worker, gave birth to five girls (one stillborn) in Chavarria, 65 miles from Mexico City; she already has three boys, took no drugs...