Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That, in a nut-shell, is exactly the problem plaguing the 10 Democrats running to replace Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II as the U.S. representative from Massachusetts' eighth congressional district...
...that's no surprise in a district which, according to the Almanac of American Politics, gave Ronald Reagan his lowest vote percentages in the country...
...Flynn has always been pro-life. Capuano is pro-choice. Flynn's name is known district-wide. Capuano has struggled to distinguish himself amongst the other candidates...
...according to the Economic Policy Institute. The trend has accelerated in the past decade. From 1991 to 1996, regular ed accounted for just 23% of total spending on new school programs. Average students have become casualties of a spoils system in which every morsel of every school district's budget has a different interest group staking a claim to it. "If you don't have someone representing you, your needs get lost," says William Purkey, an education professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. "The average child slips through the cracks. There's no strong voice on their...
...previously went unnoticed are flourishing. "Kids have started to find they have a voice in the room," says teacher Dana Sherman. "When you start giving kids a voice, achievement is one of the outcomes." Still, after five years, the program hasn't spread to any other classes in the district. "You know who the parents are who are upset," says Sherman. "It's the parents of the kids who have traditionally been in the high-honors classes. They don't buy it. They think it's a touchy-feely course...