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Still, many parents resisted. Balking at longer bus rides, some signed up their kids for private schools. One faction made a short-lived bid to build a charter school closer to their homes. But by midyear, many of those parents had transferred their children back--and they were joined by some parents who had been using private schools for years. A man who once backed the charter-school campaign won a school board seat. Those who had been in the system all along are touting the benefits of vigilant parenting. "The more you hang around the school, the more your...
...control the technology through laws originally passed to regulate munitions, are led by a handful of spooky U.S. government agencies (such as the FBI and the National Security Agency) with support from the White House that rises and falls from one election cycle to the next--more on that faction later...
Meanwhile, within weeks of the peace deal's signing, rebel soldiers from another faction kidnapped 30 U.N. officials, journalists and peacekeepers and more than 200 women and children. All were eventually released, but kidnappings and rapes by various rebel groups and occasional clashes with U.N. soldiers have continued ever since...
...Because the Boy Scouts are torn between competing sides in the culture wars. One faction is composed of such sponsoring institutions as schools and fire departments--more and more of which have policies that prohibit discrimination against gays. Also part of this faction are liberal religious groups that have filed a brief on behalf of Dale, including committees from the United Methodist Church, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Together members of this faction sponsor some 22,000 Scout units (roughly 20% of the total). If the Scouts became a fiercely anti-gay group...
...Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas, is controlled by another faction in the debate, those for whom "morally straight" definitely means sexually straight. In recent years, members of the Mormon church have become a powerful force within scouting. Today nearly 10% of the members of the Boy Scouts Advisory Council live in Salt Lake City, Utah, home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Latter-day Saints constitute less than 2% of the U.S. population but 21% of the boys in the core Boy Scouts program, more than any other group...