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...dead human bodies is mildly unsettling, and the author’s last name, Roach, in bold, bright red letters, doesn’t make the book any more enticing. In fact, the combination of the two only makes me think about roaches infesting a decaying body. A pleasant lunch read, I’m sure. THEN WE CAME TO THE END by Joshua Ferris I wanted to run as soon as I saw this book. Yellow post-it notes clutter the cover. Post-its mean reminders of things that need to be done. And for an obsessive-compulsive-checklist...
...move, which remedied the shortage of seats for students who do not qualify for the government’s free and reduced lunch program, marked the biggest alteration to a system painstakingly negotiated six years ago to ensure that no school’s student body was disproportionately wealthy or disproportionately poor...
...Under the current system, families select their top three choices from among the district’s 12 primary schools. The applicants are divided into two categories: those who are eligible for the federal free lunch program and those...
...percent of the applicants for the 2007-2008 academic year come from paid lunch families. But under the prior system they could fill at most was only 65 percent of the total seats, according to Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn...
...Under the new rules, student demographics may vary by as much as 15 percent, effectively providing up to 70 percent of the spots to paid lunch students...