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...cuts directly. Bring in the names of the people you want to cut. This is too vague,” he said. The committee is set to make a final decision on the budget in March. Members of the committee also heard an update on kindergarten-through-eighth grade report card reforms given by Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk. She explained the strides that a reform committee had taken toward providing a more informative curriculum guide, which will provide parents with a more in-depth look at classroom subjects. The current system, which employs 64 different report cards, would be thinned...
...Houston on Nov. 28, 1967, her parents moved quickly to Mexia, a small town of some 6,000 that lies just 40 miles east of Waco in the heart of Texas. Three weeks before her second birthday, her parents were divorced. She dropped out of school by eighth grade and at 17 married Billy Wayne Smith, the 16-year-old fry cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken. The fried chicken drive-in is still there and Billy still lives in Mexia. He was one of the 50 mourners at a memorial service last fall for his son, Daniel...
Sometimes an ounce of prevention can cause a ton of trouble. This month Texas became the first state to require that all girls entering sixth grade receive Gardasil, a new vaccine that protects against several strains of a sexually transmitted virus that causes 70% of cervical-cancer cases. But with the controversial goal of vaccinating young virgins against STDs, the Governor bypassed the legislature by issuing an executive order. Here's a look at other Gardasil reactions...
...attendance using PRS clickers and ensure lecture participation using cattle prods.. 4) Upon closer inspection of the syllabus, you realize that you do not recognize the characters in which the syllabus is written. 5) On Friday morning, your professor announces his intention to wage a private war against grade inflation. 6) On Monday morning, your professor announces his intention to wage a private war against your GPA. 7) As you walk into section, you hear “Oh my God, it’s like a Phi Beta Kappa reunion in here!” 8) Your...
...School graduate, but given his membership in Skull and Bones and the ever-popular “Blame Yale” t-shirt, he hardly seems to count as a Harvard alum. As a good portion of the last presidential election was focused on which candidate had the lowest grade point average from Yale, it seems that national politics needs a change of allegiance.Ba-Rock the Vote!Harvard is finally making a return to presidential politics in 2007 in the form of Harvard Law School graduate Barack H. Obama, who announced the formation of an exploratory committee last month...