Word: florida
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...nation's restive school teachers continue to display their fighting mood. As a statewide walkout in Florida went into its second week, new teacher strikes broke out in Pittsburgh and San Francisco and tension grew in Oklahoma and South Dakota. Teachers in Albuquerque went back to work, ending a six-day strike-but only after winning a commitment from New Mexico officials to seek more money for schools...
Striking teachers of N.E.A. affiliates in Albuquerque returned to work after Governor David Cargo agreed to appoint a special task force to recommend school improvements to the legislature. In Florida, Governor Claude Kirk belatedly agreed to sign into law a $254 million school-appropriations bill passed by his Democratic-controlled legislature-thus abandoning his promise not to raise taxes. Although the measure provides for $58 million in salary increases, the teachers insist that even more money is needed for new kindergarten classes, more textbooks and additional teachers, want assurances that the state will consider the Florida Education Association the bargaining...
...similar conclusions, more and more judges are reaching decisions on the basis of need and ability to pay. Says Chicago Divorce Lawyer Russell Bundesen: "The controlling factors now are how much the husband earns, what his assets are, and what assets his wife has." In fact, in states like Florida, where the law forbids payment of alimony to a woman who has been divorced on grounds of her adultery, judges often overlook perfectly well-documented adultery charges and grant the divorce for extreme cruelty so that alimony may be assigned to a woman who needs it. When the dirty linen...
Bronstein, former Chief Staff Counsel of the Lawyers' Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC) of the American Civil Liberties Union, has served as attorney for CORE and NAACP as well as LCDC. He has also held voluntary counseling positions in New York and Florida. He received his Masters in Laws from New York Law School...
First, but in no particular order of importance, he said the coach must develop a working rapport with his players. "I've got players here from California and Florida," he explained, "They've got no parents to talk to. If they can't come to me with personal problems, then I've failed as a coach...