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...about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science. And then there's the general confusion that often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy as byzantine as the typical American school district. "There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work," says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean - it's not that they don't care; they just don't know how." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...little is being achieved. But frequent foes in the past, including the Westlands Water District, representing agribusiness, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the state's biggest urban supplier, came together to support the legislation. "No one is getting 100% of what they want," says Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, a Los Angeles Democrat, but "it is the only way to balance the many different individual interests for the overall greater good...
...With reporting by Bobby Ghosh / Washington; Hilary Hylton / Fort Hood; and Karen Tumulty / San Antonio...
...surface, there was nothing unusual about the Oct. 6 telephone call between White House health-care boss Nancy-Ann DeParle and Karen Ignagni, the leading medical-insurance lobbyist in Washington. The two women have known each other for years and often speak several times a week. Though Ignagni's group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), has long been leery of - and at other times downright hostile to - the health-care bills moving through Congress, an uneasy truce was holding between the insurers and a White House bent on reform. But just barely: when DeParle and a Senate aide asked...
...schools that had been shuttered. Yet such appeals to the wealthy have been blunted by the economic downturn, which has pointed up the problem with depending on the kindness of others. "What's keeping a lot of schools in the inner city going is philanthropy from other people," says Karen Ristau, president of the National Catholic Education Association. "But it's difficult, because if you have to continuously raise millions of dollars every year, the sustainability of your school is always in jeopardy." (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...