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...problem with carrying out the Carnegie proposals is that they will require a corps of instructors specialized in teaching early adolescents. But only 23 states offer a credential for teaching in the middle grades. Those on the front lines "will need help and training," says Chester Finn, former Assistant Secretary of Education under William Bennett. "It's not everyone who can teach a 14-year...
...Clean Air Act of 1970, which has been altered only once, in 1977. Democrats blamed the lack of progress on the Reagan White House, and with much justice; Bush's plan marks his sharpest break yet from the policies of his predecessor. But Democrats Robert Byrd, the former Senate majority leader, and John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, also blocked legislation, in deference to the fears of miners of high-sulfur coal in Byrd's West Virginia and automakers and -workers in Dingell's Michigan...
...heart of the scandal is Samuel Pierce, Reagan's HUD Secretary. Though Pierce was the only black to serve in Reagan's Cabinet -- and its only member to remain in office throughout both Reagan terms -- the former President once greeted him as "Mr. Mayor" at a conference of mayors. Under Pierce's feckless leadership, HUD's budget was pared 70% (it stands at $14.9 billion for 1989). Little was done to halt a decline in the nation's inventory of low- income housing, from which 4.5 million units have disappeared since 1973. Critics charge that programs were dismantled, talented staffers...
...rent subsidies, tax credits and consulting fees were doled out to prominent Republicans and a handful of rich developers. Pierce stood idly by as his executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean, 35, turned over contracts to firms that enlisted Washington insiders as consultants. They included Dean's close friend former Attorney General John Mitchell and former Interior Secretary James Watt...
Breaking with Ronald Reagan's inaction, President Bush proposes an attack on acid rain, smog and toxic chemicals. -- A spreading scandal in federal housing programs shows how the greedy, instead of the needy, profited under former HUD secretary "Silent Sam" Pierce...