Word: implementation
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...state officials equate better schools with healthier economies. Some 45 states have put together task forces to consider school reform. In Mississippi, traditionally one of the educationally benighted states, Governor William Winter got the legislature to pass a $69 million bill last December to improve teacher pay and to implement compulsory attendance for the first time since the 1950s. Florida Governor Bob Graham's $228 million school-reform package, passed in June, will toughen student requirements, provide summer institutes for classroom teachers, buy computers for classes, and provide money to attract math and science teachers. Governor James Hunt...
...Caracas conference endorsed a platform calling for measures that included lower interest rates. Heads of state of the Latin nations will meet later this year in Quito, Ecuador, to consider possible political moves to implement the demands. That gathering, though, is likely to maintain last week's bankerly calm and be free of wild rhetoric...
...meeting is believed to be the most extensive gathering ever of scholars, government, and media officials who can suggest and implement reforms in the electoral process, rather than just discuss them, conference organizers said...
...late June, the Court issued an indefinite stay of the lower court decision, allowing the Department of Education to carry out the policy until the justices can rule on its constitutionality later this year. The ruling gave the Department of Education only three days to implement a policy due to go into effect July 1. The Department decided to plough ahead and enact the legislation as planned, granting first one-, then two-month extensions on the July deadline...
ONCE THE SUPREME COURT set aside the lower court ruling this month even more confusion arose. The Education Department decided to implement the law for the '83-'84 school year, without consulting any financial aid officers Once the aid officers made it clear that the deadline was unfeasible, the Department granted the 30-day extension but did not publicize it. Four days after the extension had been finalized, some financial aid offices, including Harvard's did not even know they had been given an extra month. Even after the deadline issue finally cleared up earlier this week, admissions officials around...