Word: labors
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...Board of Trustees, the mayor has succeeded in pushing up test scores virtually across the spectrum. The district has added 632 classrooms, finally taking teachers out of lunchrooms and auditoriums. Some $2 billion has been spent on capital improvements, and for the first time in recent memory there's labor peace. "My people were used to a confrontational style," says Thomas Reece, president of the Chicago Teachers Union. "But we've gotten a positive jolt because everybody wants [reform] to happen...
...Ugly Creek, 11 students renovated a community center, tutored children, and learned about educational, labor and environmental issues from community leaders, Kalloch said...
...have fun and meet new people," he says. "It's relaxing in the way that physical labor can be after half a semester of mental labor...
...might students elect to spend a mid-semester vacation doing hard physical or mental labor...
Lynn Martin, former U.S. secretary of labor (1991-1993), noted that most of the leaders at the discussion had held their offices only one term...