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Because of the structure of the charter school, Birkett has reason to put in long hours. He hires and fires teachers directly, manages a $3.8 million budget and holds weekly full- staff meetings. He communicates with the Board of Trustees, the school's governing overseers...
...reason for the high burden of proof is that the state gives the school $3.8 million a year--no strings attached. And while there are no district funds to dip into for facilities or special education budget, there is also no regulating, Board-of-Education-like bureacracy that approves budget items...
...exercise centralized control, if not for any other reason than to ensure the continued support of its main constituency, the armed forces. To truly devolve power, the regime would deprive itself of its control over the country's economic resources, a substantive portion of which sustain a half-a-million-strong military establishment in one of the poorest and most underdeveloped states in the world...
...Part of the problem may be demographic. Even though the WHO believes smoking currently kills 4 million people a year worldwide - and will kill 10 million a year by 2030 - its impact on developing countries may be different than it is in industrialized countries. "In the industrialized countries, people are living a lot longer today, and if you live into your eighties or nineties, the effects of tobacco become much more pronounced," says Dowell. "But life expectancy in the Third World is considerably lower, and they may therefore not notice the effects of smoking as compared with other factors that...
...calls for better family benefits to Al Gore's environmentalism to John McCain's push for campaign finance reform - all seen as pro-labor issues. The move also comes right after the endorsement of Gore by America's largest labor group, the AFL-CIO, which also pledged $40 million toward federal campaigns, primarily to Democrats...