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...decision by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to recall 180 of its guerrillas from "family leave" is, Wickremesinghe tells TIME, actually a cover for rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's convening of a council of senior commanders to discuss, among other options, remobilizing for war. But whatever the gap between fiction and reality developing on this blighted paradise of palm trees and ivory beaches, there is no mistaking the fundamental truth: the 20-month-old peace process to end Asia's longest and bloodiest civil war is suddenly in serious trouble...
...city council has to keep the pressure on in making sure the school department addresses the issues of the achievement gap, community confidence, and the development of a solid education that allows all children to achieve...
...Make sure we don’t let politics intrude into the school committee. We need to let the school committee and superintendent do what they can do to lower the achievement gap...
...superintendent found a way in his previous district (Ft. Wayne, Indiana) to make progress closing the achievement gap in a school district with a variety of different types of schools... Also, if you want to attract the best teachers, you have to allow them some measure of creativity. On the other hand, we also need to make sure our elementary students arrive at our one high school with equivalent skills...
While DeBergalis says one of his long-term goals is to bridge the gap between students and residents, some points of his platform may only exacerbate already existing tensions between town and gown...