Word: districting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. He had similar responsibilities with Kerr-McGee, where his crews produced fuel pellets for experimental reactors. When the plant closed in 1975, Smith was furloughed. His wife Phyllis, 43, a tall brunette with fashionably frizzed hair, carried the family finances with her job as a district manager for Avon. Smith began doing the family cooking. He also kept busy taking his motor home to auctions, picking up stuff for the flea market. He and Phyllis spent a lot of time working on a rambling clapboard house they bought in Shawnee...
Last December, the National Labor Relations Board certified District 65, which represents 900 clerks, typists, and technical employees, and Local 925, which represents 20 professional librarians...
...clerical workers struck to force the university to recognize their union and begin contract negotiations. District 65 won a "tremendous victory" yesterday, Kathy M. Kautzer, a spokesman for the union, said yesterday...
...educational psychologist who tested Tommy. The conclusion: Tommy was not too slow but too quick for the classroom routine. His IQ was a very elevated 169. "He was frustrated and bored to tears," observes his father, Attorney Ronald Irwin. Now the Irwins are suing Illinois' McHenry County School District for damages of $1 million, seeking a legal precedent that would compel increased education spending for the gifted...
Boredom is the rarely noted but deadly enemy of education. Not just the gifted but all sorts of children can become misfits, and even high school dropouts, if they have no alternatives to the traditional curriculum. McHenry School District Superintendent Richard Farmer sympathizes with the Irwins. "We have been trying diligently," says he, adding, "but in education, the scramble for funds is the name of the game. When the cuts are made, the handicapped programs are what is protected. Gifted children always get their share of cuts. This lawsuit could answer a fundamental question, and if it is answered, that...