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Even in De Kalb County, Georgia, where unemployment hovers below the national average at 6.3%, Bush faces a formidable challenge. Nestled east of Atlanta, De Kalb provided the backdrop to the movie Driving Miss Daisy, and is home to a diverse mix of rich and poor, white and black, Republican and Democrat, as well as longtime residents and new immigrants from the North. Dukakis narrowly won De Kalb with 50.2% of the vote in 1988; at the moment, Bush trails Clinton by a daunting...
...Graham Allison was extremely intelligent and visible. Putnam was put her too brief a time [two years] to leave a specific imprint...[but] he was very concerned about academic standards," says Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor of press and public policy...
...Carnesale comes in a time when the school is searching for a new definition of purpose...He's been here long enough to know where the school has been and where it's going," says Kalb, who is also the director of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy...
...suspect that is also going to be a kind of liberating experience with people not feeling bogged down in bureaucracy," Kalb says...
Last week the Supreme Court edged closer to an answer: it ruled that in many instances, local school districts can determine the means for achieving classroom racial balance. The case involved the public schools of De Kalb County, Ga., which were ordered to desegregate in 1969. After that, large numbers of black families moved into the southern part of the county and sent their children to neighborhood schools. Result: more than half of the 33,752 black students attended 90% black schools, while more than a fourth of the 34,692 white pupils were in schools that were 90% white...