Word: district
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of the report, comes down hard on teaching methods. "We have taught kids to be little calculators, but they do not know why they do what they do," she says, adding, "They don't know what numbers mean." James Vasquez, superintendent of San Antonio's Edgewood school district, where 94% of the pupils are Hispanic, blames substandard preparation for teachers. He points out that Texas, like many other states, certifies elementary teachers who never took much math and may be almost as lost as their pupils...
...consumer boycotts, demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns against companies who have directors who also sit on IP's board. Thus the targets include Avon Products, Coca-Cola, Bank of Boston and the PNC Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh. In some cases, the leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board. Such strong-arm tactics give hope to William Meserve, the president...
...narrow streets of downtown Johannesburg were strangely silent last week. Black workers and shoppers who normally jam the district by day were nowhere to be seen. Stores did desultory business; restaurants closed their doors. In ( Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg, residents remained inside their homes...
Blacks are not unanimously grateful for the attention. Along with whites, they remember that Mason unsuccessfully challenged Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau at the polls three years ago, and some suspect that the lawyers are not above advancing their personal ambitions. Moderates of all races have winced at reports that Mason and Maddox have established ties with the fiery black Muslim Louis Farrakhan...
...sketchy accounts of Tawana's absence. Witnesses reported seeing her at parties in a nearby town. Neighbors told of Tawana's prior disappearances and of violent conflicts between mother and daughter. Mason, Maddox and Sharpton subsequently tossed out casual accusations that Tawana's rapists included a Dutchess County assistant district attorney, a state trooper and a part-time policeman who shot himself to death days after the alleged gang rape. Local, state and federal investigators have found no evidence for their charges...