Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Schaffer was appointed to the state legislature in 1987 at age 25, he was the youngest person ever to serve in the state Senate. During his nine years in office, he has sponsored welfare reform for minors receiving Aid for Families with Dependent Children and called for merit pay for teachers. Schaffer advocates lower taxes and a balanced-budget amendment, aiming to capitalize on the district's conservatism and continue the G.O.P.'s reign in a seat his party has held since...
...merit fund was proposed to correct what some council members saw as a flaw in the grants process--that groups with no cash reserves are given money while financially solvent groups receive none...
Council members struck down the merit fund 48 to 13, saying the entire grants process itself should be reformed...
...thousand, seven hundred dollars or $3,400 [proposed for the merit fund] is a piddly sum," said Robert B. Wolinsky '97, finance committee vice-chair. "What we should be doing is opening the grants process to these [larger] groups. If that comes at the expense of these smaller groups, that's a decision that we're going to have to make...
Leaders of several ethnic organizations, calling themselves the Coalition of the Student Leaders for U.C. Reform, attended the meeting to support hiking both the grants fund and the merit fund...