Word: moving
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Four California school districts had already asked the state to waive its requirement that a student be taught core subjects in his native language while he is learning English. But no request had sparked a protest as vitriolic as the one in Santa Barbara. The city's move last week served as an early warning for the fate of bilingual teaching throughout the state--and for the rise of a potent political issue nationwide...
...Santa Barbara last week, defenders of bilingualism considered their next move. A lawsuit against the school board? A general strike? A boycott of Anglo businesses? Mirna Nunez, a principal organizer of the protest, vowed, "We're going to fight this to the end!" Meanwhile, though, the boycott of the schools dissolved, and the kids made their way back to class...
Alarcon: After the disappearance of the socialist world, you had to deal with the real world or move to another planet. While it is true that we have some things in our reality that are not to our liking--the dual economy, the circulation of dollars--that was done out of necessity. But it is something that we should try to eliminate, the sooner the better...
...Democratic Society, a small,left-wing militant group demanded an end tomilitary and military-industrial recruiting,Harvard expansion into poor communities, the ROTCprogram, and other connections between theUniversity and war-related activities.Administrators walked a fine line as they soughtto reach a satisfactory balance of studentdemands. The bureaucracy could not move fastenough to satisfy one segment...
...drip of new details in the Clinton sex scandal slowed to a virtual halt Saturday as all sides in the case retreated under the cover of subpoenas to discuss their next move...