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Like many other states striving for fairness in funding rich and poor school districts, Texas has found no quick fix. After the state supreme court last year affirmed a 1987 district court ruling that the existing system was unconstitutional, Governor Bill Clements and state lawmakers wrestled with the issue through four rancorous special sessions. They finally adopted a formula for bolstering less affluent districts with additional state funds. Last week District Court Judge F. Scott McCown pitched out that plan. Ruling in a suit by the poor school districts that filed the original action, McCown concluded, "The rich districts...
...particularly instructive Sesame Street episode, Bert and Ernie find themselves confronted with rain leaking through a hole in the roof. They lament that it is impossible to go out and fix the roof while it's still raining. Thus, they continue to get wet. When the weather finally clears, though, they decide not to bother fixing the roof, reasoning that you don't need a good roof as long as it's not raining...
...worry?" energy policy led directly to the current jam in the Persian Gulf. As long as we maintain our gluttonous consumption of energy, we can never wean ourselves from dependence on Gulf oil or reduce our vulnerability to capricious despots like Saddam Hussein. The time has come to fix the roof--before the big storm hits...
...brink. Says Jay Abrams, a vice president at the Wall Street credit-rating firm Standard & Poor's: "Philadelphia has dug itself into a great big hole." Would even a big loan ward off bankruptcy at this point? Says city controller Jonathan Saidel: "It's just a quick fix, a bid to buy time...
Engineers have tried to fix the plumbing between the shuttle and its huge external tank, but the leaks keep turning up in different places. "My first reaction was frustration," said shuttle scientist Ed Weiler, "but my next thought was 'My God, I'm glad they stopped; some of my friends are aboard...