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...excess goods, and now the CEO of Overstock.com has set his sights on making sure public schools spend their money wisely. Appalled by bloated administrative and bureaucratic expenses, Patrick Byrne is championing state initiatives that would require schools to spend 65% of their budgets on teachers' salaries and other classroom costs. The national average is 61.5%, and only four states--Maine, New York, Tennessee and Utah...
...school districts. Many school officials oppose his measures for the same reason. "Local boards should decide what best works for their districts," says Barbara Klaas, president-elect of the Minnesota School Boards Association. Critics are also worried that a 65% rule would divert money from such outside-the-classroom needs as school buses and school nurses. The mandate, says Klaas, "diverts attention from the real issue--is there adequate funding going to schools?" --With reporting by Marc Hequet
...when he needed to. In Nigeria's dusty north, Wolfowitz visited a primary school renovated with Bank money. While gun-toting security guards watched anxiously, Wolfowitz enthusiastically plunged into a crowd of wide-eyed kids, most in tattered clothes, some with begging bowls. Inside, he toured a freshly painted classroom where boys in white shirts and trousers occupied two rows while girls wearing Islamic gowns and head coverings sat in a third. "Good afternoon, sir," the children sang, as their high-profile guest walked in. "We're happy to see you." Now Wolfowitz just has to make the good feelings...
...Those weeks and months that followed his murder were a defining time for me. I thought that I would lose my mind if I stayed in a classroom and taught, which is what I really wanted to do. I knew I had to do something. I thought by helping other crime victims have a voice in court, I'd be helping them. But what it did was cured...
...many as seven places to go," she says. When Davidson complained, she says, she was told "to keep my mouth shut, that nothing was going to change." Since the plant's post-9/11 security plan took effect last fall, she tells TIME, there have been 29 in-house classroom exercises--with members of the guard force split into groups of "attackers" and "defenders"--designed to show how well the guards could defend the plant from terrorist attacks. "We won only one out of 29 tabletop drills using the new defensive plan," she says. "The attackers won 28." A senior...