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None of this is occurring in a vacuum, says Samuel Casey Carter, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Center for Education Reform. "For more than 30 years, the Catholic Church has been supporting the public-school system, educating children that many said were uneducable," Carter says. "When these schools are closing at [a rate of] 100 to 200 a year, no matter how small they are, that ends up putting a massive burden on an already burdened public-school infrastructure." As he sees it, urban Catholic-school closures dump students back into a system that is ill-prepared to educate...
Known for his work with nonprofit organizations such as City Year and Be the Change, Khazei recently announced his candidacy for the position of Senator in the state of Massachusetts, a position left vacant with the recent death of Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56. Khazei was consequently endorsed by M. Maxwell T. Kennedy ’87, Edward’s nephew, and the two men made appearances at Harvard and Tufts University yesterday...
...contrast, the House bill would create a national exchange. Instead of a national public insurance plan - the controversial "public option" that is included in both the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Finance Committee bill and the House bill - the Baucus bill calls for the establishment of state or multistate nonprofit health-insurance cooperatives. (Read "Health Reform's Public Option: Down...
...envisioned in the Baucus bill - is a key element for controlling the cost of private health insurance for individuals and small businesses. "It's not whether they can or can't [establish an exchange]," says Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. "It's whether they will do it in an active way. An insurance exchange could just be a website that posts products, and you could do that with two people and an IT person. But if the purpose of an exchange is to negotiate, assure capacity of insurance plans...
...would have to sell insurance to anyone who applied for it - many current state insurance regulations are a mishmash of complex formulas and exclusions. "What's been impossible to effectively regulate are these complicated rating rules," says Rick Curtis, president of the Institute for Health Policy Solutions, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization...