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...ramifications of Spellings' bombshell will take months, if not years, to sort out, but most agree that a major federal foray into emergency school funding was desperately needed. The fate of 372,000 displaced children is at least as important to the nation as the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, and unlike the payment of rebuilding costs, education isn't a choice--it's a government guarantee. Yet for days it appeared the feds might foist much of the obligation on state school systems, 47 of which are hosting Katrina students. Most evaluated the problem and decided to teach first...
...says the proposal's eventual legitimacy may depend on details Spellings has not yet made available. "As a temporary initiative to help families in exceptional circumstances, it's reasonable," he says. "But if they use this disaster as a beachhead to establish a longstanding voucher program in the Gulf [Coast] region, it would be wildly inappropriate...
...government's response. Many blamed President Bush for the delays; others called such finger-pointing unfair The sluggish response to the crisis of Hurricane Katrina was shameful [Sept. 12]. There seemed to be a lack of organization and little coordination among federal, state and local authorities. The Gulf Coast contains vital ports for oil and natural gas and should have been given a high priority in U.S. defense planning against terrorism. The government's unpreparedness makes me extremely skeptical of the effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security. It certainly didn't seem to have made plans for evacuation...
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced last week that it would offer limited levels of assistance to second-year MBA students, doctoral students, and business faculty from Gulf Coast universities shut down by Hurricane Katrina...
Several of Harvard’s other schools have also made plans to accommodate students from institutions forced to close temporarily after the storm hit the Gulf Coast about three weeks...