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...next school is made of stone and surrounded by pretty trees and grass. "This was my school," says Mommy proudly. "It cost your grandparents lots of money to send me here. But it was worth...
...tuition tax credit for each child in a private or religiously affiliated school. Already, students statewide in Minnesota as well as in such widely praised individual school districts as Cambridge, Mass., and New York City's East Harlem can select which public schools they will attend. These are grass- roots manifestations of a political idea that is rapidly gaining momentum and, if fully implemented, holds the potential to radically transform American public education...
Fearing that this appalling state of affairs can only get worse, the victims at last have begun to strike back. Often with the backing of ecological watchdog groups, grass-roots organizations are taking on the waste managers, using public relations and the law as their major weapons...
Nebuchadnezzar was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen...
Pitts, 65, is quite a tree shaker herself. Scholar, writer and bureaucratic infighter, she has done as much as anyone else to transform the field of historic preservation from a grass-roots trend to a mainstream movement. During her 16-year tenure with the Department of the Interior, she has helped designate more than 200 structures and districts as National Historic Landmarks. Among her assorted trophies are Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house in Bear Run, Pa., and the elephant-shaped hotel in Margate City, N.J. While there are 55,000 sites, properties and districts on the National Register...