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...than a dozen of the best Toledo teachers leave the classroom to work full-time as mentors for new teachers and to intervene with veterans experiencing problems. "We had been constantly locked up in long and damaging struggles with management over dismissing teachers," recalls Toledo Federation of Teachers president Dal Lawrence, who created the program. "Now that pretty much has disappeared." When teacher competence is called into question, 90% of the complaints are triggered by other teachers, not by parents or administrators. "Teachers don't want to work next door to an incompetent colleague," says Lawrence...
...confidence of the house?" Last Wednesday, the question was put to a vote in the lower house of parliament, and Singh lost. Two days later, with the backing of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, his job was taken over by Chandrashekhar, who broke away from Singh's Janata Dal party on Monday...
Singh's government fell after only 11 months when issues of caste and religion erupted into violence over rival Hindu-Muslim claims to the site of a mosque at Ayodhya. Winning the support of less than half of the 140 Janata Dal members, Chandrashekhar will be dependent upon the opposition Congress (I) Party and its allies...
...three months. It was the most serious challenge yet to Singh, who is struggling to hold his party together, even as the rise of Hindu nationalism threatens to undermine the secular foundations of the world's most populous democracy. Said S.R. Bommai, president of the Prime Minister's Janata Dal party: "The country is at a crossroads. We have to choose between secularism and religious fundamentalism, between democracy and mobocracy, between unity and disintegration...
...There will be trouble in the party if V.P. Singh is not elected prime minister," said Jaipal Reddy of Janata Dal, or People's Party, largest of the five parties in the National Front...