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...There are loopholes whereby you can get hired in many districts where there are real shortages," explains Robert Dale Ballou, a University of Massachusetts economist who focuses on the teaching profession. "The unions and the schools of education don't like the loopholes, but they exist because districts need teachers." In New York City, for example, more than 10% of teachers work without a standard license...
...sours; the scoutmaster was pretty well in the bag. I reluctantly left my son there and worried all weekend about his being supervised by that group of "morally straight" men. I would have been far happier to have him in the care of a responsible gay scoutmaster like James Dale [who is suing the Boy Scouts to admit openly gay men and boys]. I think if the personal lives of all scoutmasters were scrutinized, we would find that Dale is probably "morally straighter" than most of them. JAMES A. PASCHEN Mequon...
...understand the reality behind the slogans. Unless the IMF gives up its strategy of trying to help the poor by first investing in the rich, a few tweaks of its policies here and there will not change much. As you say, the poor are "structurally adjusted half to death." DALE LINDSEY Cleveland, Ohio...
...between competing sides in the culture wars. One faction is composed of such sponsoring institutions as schools and fire departments--more and more of which have policies that prohibit discrimination against gays. Also part of this faction are liberal religious groups that have filed a brief on behalf of Dale, including committees from the United Methodist Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Together members of this faction sponsor some 22,000 Scout units (roughly 20% of the total). If the Scouts became a fiercely anti-gay group, many churches and schools would quickly...
...have been instrumental in helping defeat pro-gay initiatives in at least three states. In 1995 Jack Goaslind Jr., a prominent church member who currently sits on the Scouts advisory council, said the church "would withdraw our charter membership" if scouting were required to admit gays. Moreover, in the Dale case, most major conservative groups in the U.S., from the Family Research Council to the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, have sided with the Scouts...