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Like most urban public school districts, the one Belle joined in Jackson suffers overcrowded classrooms, underpaid teachers and students whose scores on the ACT, a standardized college-admissions exam, lag behind the national average (the district average last year was just 16.9 out of a total of 36 points). JROTC has helped to even the playing field. "Jackson has more unwed mothers than just about any city of its size in the nation," says state senator Robert Johnson III. "We're talking about second- and third-generation single parents. The people criticizing JROTC are not the people living in these...
With the odds for success against many of Jackson's students, local educators applaud any program able to bolster academic performance even marginally. The cadets score two or three points higher on the act than their civilian peers. Last year nearly 96% of the district's cadets graduated, compared with 92% of its noncadets. "We have micromanaged these students and conditioned them to be successful," says Colonel Lucius Wright, director of Jackson's program. Says Jodie Brown, 23, a Forest Hill High School graduate and former JROTC cadet who last year returned to her alma mater as a history teacher...
...controlled Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine from 1989 to '94 - fled France in 1995 after a bungled attempt to intimidate and blackmail investigating magistrate Eric Halphen. At the time, Halphen was heading an inquiry into alleged illegal rpr funding from kickbacks on public-housing contracts in the district. Halphen quit the judiciary in January, complaining that his seven-year investigation had been repeatedly sabotaged. Before leaving his Caribbean hideaway, Schuller told journalists that he intended to explain how "the system which magistrates have been investigating is not that of Councilor Didier Schuller, but that of a political party...
Nepal State of Emergency Parliament voted to extend another three-month state of emergency after rebels killed more than 140 troops and police in the deadliest-ever raids by Maoist insurgents. Barely five hours after the announcement, rebels raided a police post in the western Salyan district, killing at least 24 policemen...
...FYSC will include 20 first-years, five elected from each first-year council election district two weeks after the fall’s general council elections. First-year council members may also serve on the FYSC...