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Parent-teacher associations (PTAs), school foundations, independent community groups - the methods may vary, but the goal remains the same: to prevent public schools from losing more staff and services. In New York City, some public-school parents recently came under fire for paying school aides out of their own pockets. The local teachers union filed a complaint, alleging that the positions were taking away jobs from higher-paid unionized aides. It's all a new twist on an old story. "School spending has been augmented by private sources for a long time," says Andy Rotherham, a co-founder of Education...
...subsidize a wasteful SUV lifestyle for so long. A smart tax would stabilize the price of gas at a high enough level to discourage driving - and it would generate revenue that could be used for a number of green programs, including cash for clunkers. Certainly, efficiency is an important goal - a new report from McKinsey & Co. found that the U.S. economy could save $1.2 trillion through 2020 by investing $520 billion in various efficiency investments - and encouraging the switch to less wasteful cars is smart policy. But unless we end the era of cheap gas too, those savings will...
...under construction to add to its existing stable of 53. Even the oil-rich Middle East has taken its first step toward nukes: Abu Dhabi hopes to begin work soon on the first of the half-dozen or so reactors it needs to meet the United Arab Emirates' ambitious goal of generating 25% of its energy from nuclear power...
...diplomatic arrangement that is entirely a product of the Bush Administration? The White House likes to think of itself as guided by cold-blooded realists - diplomats who keep their eyes strictly on U.S. interests. Three successive Administrations - Clinton, Bush and now Obama - have decided the only real goal that matters when it comes to North Korea is getting it to climb off the nuclear ledge. (Whether that, in fact, is a realistic goal, is a separate question.) If Kim, apparently back in the saddle again, told Clinton he wants to talk directly to the U.S. about doing yet another nuclear...
...Nissan plans to build 50,000 EVs at its Oppama plant in its first full year of production. The company anticipates sales of 200,000 in 2012, when the car will be sold globally. Richter says 200,000 is a conservative goal. But Yoshida argues that it's far from certain drivers will switch. "There's still a big question mark [regarding sales] because of consumer perception caused by the limitation of driving range...