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Back-to-school day is supposed to bring relief for exhausted parents, but for thousands in Cleveland it is bringing only anxiety. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the city?s school voucher program, which had allowed as many as 5 percent of Cleveland?s students to attend private or parochial schools at taxpayers? expense. The reason? The voucher program, said the judge, has the "primary effect of advancing religion" (80 percent of the city?s vouchers are used in religious schools). Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ordered the program halted until a trial determines whether it violates the constitutional...
Private security companies say they have never seen so much demand for their services by schools, which has some wondering whether chronically fad-driven school administrators aren't overreacting. Says Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services in Cleveland, Ohio: "We tell people to calm down and think. There has been an explosion of overnight experts and charlatans. Schools are hiring all sorts of people with no expertise in school security." It's understandable, though, given the recent headlines, that principals and boards of education would rather be accused of going too far than have to explain...
...Were Rock Stars and the flagship Behind the Music (pop music); Lifetime's Intimate Portrait (women); CNN's Pinnacle and Movers (business); and Fox Family Channel's Famous Families (guess). C-SPAN's American Presidents profiles the 41 Chief Executives in order--though it won't, alas, cover Grover Cleveland in two nonconsecutive broadcasts...
...Katz, a candidate for mayor in Philadelphia, makes a living arranging financing for new stadiums around the country. They've provided a boost to the municipal psyche in places like Baltimore, Md., and Cleveland, Ohio, he says. But from an economic standpoint, he admits, "I don't think you can make a good case for the level of subsidy that's gone into professional sports in this country...
...weeks later, the time was ripe. The facts, rubbed shiny for retelling, are these: On Dec. 1, 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, seamstress for the Montgomery Fair department store, boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus. She took a seat in the fifth row--the first row of the "Colored Section." The driver was the same one who had put her off a bus 12 years earlier for refusing to get off and reboard through the back door. ("He was still mean-looking," she has said.) Did that make her stubborn? Or had her work in the N.A.A.C.P. sharpened her sensibilities so that...