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Bush ran as the "Education President" and has not let down the public. The most striking figure is in the Bush budget, which allocates $441 million in new spending for education programs--$250 million "merit schools" program, aimed at reducing dropout rates, a $8 million program to award outstanding teaching, and $3 million in outlays for education of homeless children. Another program receiving significant praise has been one providing $60 million in matching grants for the endowments of Black colleges...
...policymaking power. But Cavazos seems reluctant to take charge even in the areas that are clearly his. He has yet to promulgate all the regulations for the School Improvements Act, an $8.2 billion bill passed last year that would extend existing programs and create new ones, including dropout prevention. Legislation to promote alternative certification programs, Bush's suggested method for combatting the teacher shortage, has gone nowhere on Capitol Hill, say detractors, because Cavazos has failed to rally public support. "People were critical of Bennett's bully-pulpit role," says Ramon Cortines, superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District...
While Ackermann was mayor in 1972, a 16-year-old high-school dropout named Larry Largey was found dead in a police cell. A police autopsy claimed he died of a drug overdose. City activists claimed he was beaten to death by the police...
...Pitchford's songs are standard technopop, except for a comic showstopper, called Life Ain't Worth Livin' (When You're Dead), that the suicidal teens of Heathers might take to heart. Otherwise, Sing is strictly Gold Diggers turned to brass. In the latest teenpix class portrait, it's a dropout...
CONFESSION. A CHRONICLE OF ALIENATION. A shocking and realistic documentary by director Georgi Gavrilov about a young high school dropout and drug addict, the grandson of a labor-camp officer, who searches for identity in an apathetic society...