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Public-school teachers in Cleveland, Ohio, were getting ready to strike last week over work loads, salary and health-care issues. But at St. Adalbert's, a Catholic primary school on the city's tumbledown east side, it was business as usual. In a room full of first-graders, the rows of African-American boys were dressed in shirts and ties. When principal Lydia Harris entered, they stood at attention to greet her in unison. In the hallway outside, second-grade girls were heading quietly to lunch, all dressed in plaid jumpers and saddle shoes. Outside there might be squalor...
...Catholic school works. "We provide the same thing a gang provides: family, code, color, belonging and activity." And her gang is growing. Enrollment at St. Adalbert's increased by 41 special students this year, to 413, thanks to the most closely watched educational experiment in the country. This month Cleveland becomes the first city in the nation to allow children from poor homes to attend private schools, including religious schools, using government money to cover most or all of the tuition. State-financed school-choice vouchers provide up to $2,250 a year to parents of 2,000 low-income...
King's legal troubles began as a Cleveland numbers runner. In 1954, he killed a man who was robbing one of his gambling houses. He was cleared when the slaving was ruled self-defense...
...Stanislawa Walasiewicz of Poland, who was better known in the U.S., her second country, as Stella Walsh. According to an official, Walsh ran "with long, manlike strides." The reason for that became clear some 48 years later when Walsh, an innocent bystander, was killed in a robbery attempt in Cleveland. An autopsy revealed she was actually...
...Your every voter exercises a public trust." --GROVER CLEVELAND...