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...particular, Kasich has proposed eliminating campus-based financial aid programs such as Work-Study and Perkins Loans, as well as ending the in-school interest subsidy on Stafford Loans...
Pressured by parents, the district changed course again last fall and enacted a progressive code, which offers more options short of suspension, including in-school detention. Yet the nettlesome racial disparity persists, along with the smoldering debate over whether black students are getting fair treatment. Indeed, the 1974 case that is at the root of the controversy was supposedly settled 10 years ago when the Cincinnati board of education agreed to a laundry list of remedies to desegregate the schools. But there was one caveat: After seven years, the courts would review compliance. In 1991 a judge found that...
According to Hoffman, since January 16 the commission has directed its community involvement efforts towards three different fronts: in-school peace programs, measures to prevent harrassment of Jews and Arabs and neighborhood open discussions...
...York City is the biggest battlefront, but the war over condom distribution in schools is spreading across the country. One high school in Cambridge, Mass., three in Chicago, three in Los Angeles and one in Miami already dispense the devices to students through in-school health clinics, if parents give their consent. Sharon Pratt Dixon, the newly inaugurated mayor of Washington, backed school-based condom programs during her election campaign, provided students receive instruction in human reproduction and safe-sex practices...
...with children. New York public schools are burdened with educating 940,000 students, representing 150 countries and speaking more than 100 languages. Less than half read at or above grade level, 1 out of 3 drop out before their senior year, and those who do stay in school often take five to seven years to graduate from high school. The system itself is rife with troubles. Almost a third of the city's 32 local school boards are under investigation for corruption, building maintenance has chalked up a $500 million backlog, and a basic in-school service like nursing care...