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...Endowment for the Arts advocates saw their agency take a step closer to extinction today after the House slashed the $10 million remaining in the NEA budget and voted overwhelmingly to block the states from inheriting the agency's grant-making powers. Left without a penny for even a kindergarten fingerpainting show, defenders of the grant-making agency are looking to the Senate and President Clinton to help keep their agency alive. Republican senator Slade Gorton, chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, has indicated a willingness to fund the agency with at least $99.5 million next year. Republican Senator...
Robinson is the first in her family with a college degree, as are many teachers. She says she knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was in kindergarten. Like every other CITE intern, she is strongly encouraged to keep a journal of her year at Vine Elementary--whose students have the highest rate of poverty among the city's schools--to reflect upon her worries, her triumphs and her progress...
...withered maiden; he is Ichabod Crane, humiliated to death by the village nitwit. The only way he gains respect is to become Glenn Ford in Blackboard Jungle and beat up the classroom hoods. There are exceptions like Mr. Holland's Opus. But the rule is Arnold in Kindergarten...
...Huich'on kindergarten in central North Korea, the starving children appear almost skeletal. Nurses in Pyongyang hospitals can see their breath because the buildings have no heat. U.S. Congressman Tony Hall, on a visit to North Korea, spotted a teenage girl, so malnourished she looked like a six- or seven-year-old, picking weeds and grass to eat. Emergency food shipments from China, South Korea, Europe and the U.S. are being rushed in, but U.S. intelligence agencies warn that not enough will arrive in time to prevent tens of thousands from starving to death. North Korea, says World Food Program...
...like to point out that my husband and I feel very strongly about this topic because this center allowed us to work very hard these past three years. We are fighting to keep this center for the children of future families as our own daughter will be going to kindergarten in the Fall. --Elizabeth Gibb HLSCCC Board President