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According to school district figures, 33 percent of students in kindergarten to eighth grade are black, but only 7 percent of the students' teachers are black...
...Fetching classroom greeters are just one of the appealing features of the Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School in Hamden, Conn., a for-profit public school with an exuberant following among its students, parents and teachers. Run by Edison Schools Inc., a company whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ, the kindergarten-through-eighth-grade facility draws students from four local districts and sports a waiting list with more than 1,000 names on it. "We're a curiosity," says principal Dale Bernardoni, who explains that everyone from student teachers to politicians has come for a visit...
...There is absolutely no way you'll make a profit unless you have a quality program," says A.J. Clegg, CEO of Nobel, which earned $1.6 million on revenues of $110 million last year. New wrinkles at Nobel's Philadelphia school include lessons in Mandarin Chinese for every student from kindergarten to eighth grade. Why Mandarin? "It's the cash language for the 21st century," explains principal Brien Gardiner, the school's co-founder...
Some performers struggle for years before making it big. SAMMIE BUSH knows that pain all too well. He's pined for pop success since kindergarten, and finally, at 13, his moment has arrived. I Like It, the first single of his debut album, From the Bottom to the Top, is the No. 1-selling R.-and-B. track in the U.S. Sammie doesn't plan on being a one-hit wonder. "I want to win Grammys," says the Miami tyke, who phoned in at noon on a school day ("I'm just missing one day," he assured). Comparisons to Michael...
...plan calls for 21 teachers for kindergarten through eighth grade, plus art, music, physical education and foreign language instructors and eight special education teachers...