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...stories come at too high a price. After all, JROTC teaches kids how to act and think like soldiers before they are old enough to know their own mind. Critics argue that because such programs are among the few sources of additional funding for some of the nation's neediest schools, they exploit poor kids by putting them on a military track, to the exclusion of other options. The debate has heated up as a growing number of school districts have begun offering JROTC, while others in such cities as Oakland, Calif., and Chicago have scrapped conventional teaching methods...
...survey of three of the schools considered neediest by University officials shows that to meet “full need” for those schools alone would mean an increase of over $30 million dollars in aid, annually...
Twenty-eight of the nation’s elite colleges and universities—including all the Ivy League schools except for Princeton and Harvard—announced an agreement last Friday to boost financial aid to their neediest students...
...Ruggles Assisted Living project is a wonderful example of how grassroots organizations in our community help the neediest among us and give hope to the entire neighborhood," Rudenstine said...
...DEMS: Federal spending increases $35 billion over five years. Aid is tightly targeted to the neediest schools, which pleases liberals but could turn off congressmen looking to court middle-class constituents...