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...Hawaii economists predicted that the new year will bring improvement, unemployment hovers at 7% and, for the all-important tourist trade, visitor arrivals are down 4.2%. Perhaps worse, at least among the parents of 170,000 public schoolchildren, is the national scolding Hawaii received by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan after Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle closed schools on Fridays to deal with a projected budget deficit of $1 billion. (See how Hawaii's budget crisis led to furloughing kids...
This summer, Education Secretary Arne Duncan set a national goal to turn around the bottom 1% of America's schools - approximately 5,000 of them - over the next five years. While he has since dialed back the scope of the project (the Education Department now expects the funds to tackle 1,200 or so schools), the objective remains the same. "My goal isn't quantity but quality," Duncan told TIME in July. "That bottom 1% are made up of dropout factories, where 50, 60, 75% of kids are dropping out. Change around the edges isn't going...
...some pretty strong races,” said senior C boat rower Duncan Gilchrist. “We obviously didn’t meet our hopes or our goals...[but it’s] something to build off into the winter training...
Dorm Crew captain Duncan F. Moore ’11 says financial independence was the reason he started working Dorm Crew. Last summer, Duncan used the $3,500 he earned during Spring Cleanup—the four weeks of intensive cleaning after final exams end—to pay for a summer language program in Sweden...
...earlier version of the Oct. 29 article "Dorm Crew Imparts Practical Benefits" incorrectly stated that Duncan F. Moore ’11 earned $3,500 in two weeks of Spring Cleanup. In fact, Moore earned that sums over four weeks of Spring Cleanup...