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...private institutions ultimately perpetuates the problem rather than solving it. To continuously utilize federal funding solely to pay for tuition rather than new and improved programming may work in the short-term but will be ineffective in the long-term. Instead, the government must make a more concerted effort to develop special-needs programs within the existing public education infrastructure. The money should be channeled directly into the public schools in order to overhaul current failures in the system and make public schools more appropriate learning environments for all students with special needs.Reconstructing schools’ special education capacities...
...Bush administration and the subsequent challenges the next president will face. “The office of the presidency has been stretched out of shape, and it won’t snap back on its own,” he said. There will need to be an extraordinary effort by the next president, Suskind said, to give back power that had been inappropriately seized. Suskind explored the post-Sept. 11 rise in the power of the executive branch and its influence on everyday people in his most recent book, “The Way of the World...
...leader of this effort has been a freshman keeper Austin Harms, who in five games, has gone 5-0 and posted four, count ‘em, four shutouts...
...display, with one McCain adviser telling CNN that Palin was a "diva" who didn't listen to anyone. Morale was already an issue two weeks ago, when Schmidt gave a pep talk to staffers and volunteers at the campaign's Arlington, Va., headquarters. "Being part of an effort that fails does not make you a loser; it makes you a competitor," said Schmidt, according to an article in Sunday's Washington Post. "What makes you a loser is curling up into the fetal position at a time of adversity. The only thing that would ever define anyone as a loser...
...That could also just be happy talk meant to buck up the weary and the dispirited who dedicated much of the past 24 months of their lives to this effort. McCain's strategy in these final eight days of the campaign hinges on winning a slew of red states in which Obama currently holds leads of varying sizes in the polls - Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada - and then somehow producing an upset in Pennsylvania, a Blue state that went for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 and where Obama currently boasts a lead...