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...answer is cost. In the West Virginia drug-testing case, which is currently working its way through the federal court system, Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court noted that it costs about $44 a pop to do urine tests, which would cost the West Virginia school district in question about $37,000 a year. (Here's a PDF of Goodwin's preliminary injunction against drug-testing.) That same $37,000 could easily pay for a full-time teacher, meaning that drug-testing would have to be sufficiently valuable to displace an entire teaching position...
...have not been shy about using these residents to swell their vote banks. Subhasis Ghosh, the Cooch Behar official in charge of dispensing development funds, says he received 10,000 applications for voter ID cards last year and rejected 8,000 for dubious family and residency ties to his district. "A voter card is the most valuable thing in this area," he says. It makes sure that holders get at least a share of what they're entitled to: not just a vote but also access to rural employment schemes, monsoon relief, health clinics...
Antipolo street winds through Manila's Sampaloc district, right along a railway line. In his 1962 novel The Pretenders, foremost contemporary Filipino novelist F. Sionil José describes the street as one of "intractable damnation," and it's not hard to see why. Shanties still line the same steel tracks on which José's tortured antihero Antonio Samson kills himself, after learning that his vapid high-society wife is having an affair. On a recent afternoon, naked boys skipped rope near piles of rotting trash. Meals bubbled over open fires, just feet from railroad ballast...
...response to parents’ concerns, the Cambridge Public Schools committee voted to hold a roundtable discussion on possible alternatives for middle school students with advanced math abilities. Math professionals from both within the district and the local community—including representatives from Harvard and MIT—will be invited to attend. Currently, advanced students can enroll in classes at the high school or participate in individual online courses, but these options are neither formalized nor widely publicized. “This has been bubbling up for a couple years,” committee member Patrica M. Nolan...
...three girls walking down Meiji Street in the heart of Tokyo's Harajuku district are talking loudly in cute high voices, sometimes breaking into giggles. They could be any group of teenage girls on a merry shopping expedition in the Japanese capital's mecca of youth fashion - except for the fact that they are clad in clothing and accessories that mimic the look of comic-book heroines wearing the style of 18th-century princesses...