Word: districts
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...will be James Francis Redmond, 51, who now heads a peaceful school district of 9,000 students in Syosset on Long Island's North Shore. Syosset's affluent residents have been willing to help pay $1,220 per student in taxes, give Redmond a salary of $32,500, and devote much time to community committees that he has set up to consult on school problems. "I don't believe that school decisions should be left to the professionals," he says...
Worst of Both Worlds. Last March the Supreme Court gave warning of its attitude in a decision that applied only to the District of Columbia. Accused of rape, robbery and housebreaking, Morris A. Kent Jr., 16, had been under the "exclusive jurisdiction" of Washington's Juvenile Court Judge Orman W. Ketcham. Instead, the boy was tried as an adult, given a 30-to-90-year sentence. The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Ketcham had wrongly "waived" jurisdiction without giving Kent counsel, hearing or explanation...
Every now and then Washington the city--as opposed to Washington the Nation's Capital--gets attention in the national press. A handful people realize that the Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1961, finally gave District of Columbia residents the right to vote in Presidential elections. And many people who know nothing else about District affairs know that rioting broke out at Glen Echo amusement park on Easter Monday...
...often that District affairs achieve national prominence. Nevertheless, the fact is that Washington affairs, from the most important to the most minute, are national matters. Action by both houses of Congress is required to set District teachers' salaries and to establish dog license fees. During the Kennedy Administration, with the civil rights and tax cut bills pending, Congress had to take time off to repeal laws forbidding kite-flying and icecream cones Washington...
This situation has been institutionalized in what are known as "District Days"--the second fourth Mondays of each month, which are set aside for the Congress of the United States to act as city council for Washington, D.C. And the result is a nuisance to Congress, it is worse than a nuisance to District residents. Of District bills which have been sent to Capital Hill during the 89th Congress, only two major bills and a few routine housekeeping measures have been enacted...