Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three designed their proposal last winter and presented it to the school-district superintendent in May. Within three months, the district had approved it. This fall, the triumphant triumvirate filed for nonprofit status and formed a board of directors. The board appointed Liz Anderson, an eighth-grade teacher and hockey coach, as executive director. Anderson, 27, is technically young enough to be the Woods' granddaughter. "From the first time they met, Liz and Denise have been clicking," says Kennett Middle School principal John Carr...
Bernard (who later changed his last name from Lieberman to Lee) made it out of the war alive, but he lost his entire family. Now, like many survivors, he is fighting to get something back. In October he joined a class action filed in the Federal District Court of New York against Dresdner Bank, where a wealthy family member had an account. "There were 6 million people who were murdered, and every family had something," says Lee. "Our things do not belong to them, and justice will be done when they are given back...
...Crenshaw is an inner-city school, and doesn't let you forget it. Doorways are chained and gated; security guards outnumber groundskeepers. Despite a school-district policy of open enrollment, 81% of the 2,733 students are African American; most of the others are Hispanic. The school has only four white students, and Caucasian visitors are so rare that students automatically assume they're members of Meriwether's family...
Stracher himself found no fulfillment in the hours of tedious research, lack of recognition for his effort and the background position he was forced to occupy while "I had friends who were in front of juries every day in the District Attorney's Office." He writes, "I did not want to practice law where form swallowed substance, where responsibility was bestowed upon associates in dribbles." So he left...
...realize developing such a program would require the school district to hire and train qualified admissions officers at a considerable expense. But the benefits far outweigh the costs. A plan of this type would not only be more likely to withstand inevitable legal challenges but also serve as a model for other public secondary schools searching for a viable and constitutional method of preserving diversity in the classroom--which was Boston's intent in the first place...