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...although HRE has no official policy to assure that the neediest people get the housing, Demong said that the organization does seek low-income families for its rent-controlled housing...
Kopp does not seem worried. After all, she has already achieved what many thought impossible: the recruitment of some of the best college graduates to teach in some of the nation's neediest schools. Whether they live up to the high expectations set for them remains to be seen. But TFA seems to have , proved the enduring allure of teaching -- and of youthful altruism...
Sander says the school will establish a research endowment fund to be used by the dean and an advisory committee to fund the neediest programs...
...quite. Critics say the policy is racist and unfair, encouraging the most motivated parents and students to take their talents and tax dollars out of inner-city schools, which are predominantly African American and Hispanic. The hemorrhage leaves these schools with the neediest students and fewer resources with which to help them...
...Africa's neediest cases is Mozambique, the former Portuguese colony on the Indian Ocean that is almost as poor as Ethiopia. Mozambique has been embroiled in civil war from the moment it became independent in 1975. Its economic infrastructure has been destroyed by rebels, and the U.N. estimates that 6 million people face starvation in the west and north, where reliefworkers are afraid to go. Says a Mozambican army officer who recently toured some of the worst-hit areas: "I talked to people who had barely enough flesh to cover their skeletons. Their bones made noises under the skin...