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Prepared Table Charter School in Houston seemed like the perfect solution for at-risk youths. Long under the country's microscope for subpar public schools, Texas embraced the concept of using taxpayer money to set up these specialty schools, or charters, as a means of overhauling a struggling state educational system...
...proposals have also drawn fierce opposition from those who argue that the state should not be diverting more resources to charter schools. "The first charters were similar to magnet schools - the school served a specific purpose in a specific location," says Garnet Coleman, a state legislator from Houston. "In my opinion, charters were started as election tools for the 2002 gubernatorial election...
...recently learned that your family has a large African-American wing. I was very emotionally touched to discover that. I went to speak at the installation of a historical marker at my great-grandfather's grave--he's buried near Sam Houston--and this guy walks up to me and says, "Sir, my name is James Baker." You've got to go a long way back--to great-great-grandfather--to have a common ancestor, but it was really interesting. These are really wonderful people. We went to a big reunion and had a wonderful time. And we're going...
...Dallas, Mayor Laura Miller, a feisty former journalist, isn't buying that argument. The goal of the coalition she helped form with major muscle from Houston--Texas Citizens for Climate Protection--is not to stop the plants, she says, but to make TXU adopt cleaner technologies like gasification. Tampa, she points out with irritation, buys its clean-coal-compatible coke in Houston, after all. So far, she has won over 17 cities and hopes to raise nearly $500,000 to hire the best air-modeling experts and lawyers for the battle. She has no other choice than to fight...
SENTENCED. Andrew Fastow, 44, former chief financial officer of Enron; to six years in jail for his role in inflating profit figures, hiding billions of dollars in debt and enriching himself before the energy giant's 2001 collapse; in Houston. Fastow was set to serve up to 10 years after he had pleaded guilty in 2004, but Judge Kenneth Hoyt attributed the lenient sentence to his family's suffering and his cooperation in the prosecution of ex-CEO Kenneth...