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...schools that use programs designed for classrooms, the news has been encouraging as well. One notable success story comes from Oklahoma City, where district officials had been set to close Dunbar Elementary, a virtually all- black school in a low-income neighborhood, because student scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills failed to meet state standards. In an eleventh-hour effort to save the school, the district two years ago used federal money to buy a computer learning program called SuccessMaker, developed by the Computer Curriculum Corp. of Sunnyvale, California. The software allows individual students to advance at their...
...White House is more concerned about bringing along conservative Democrats like Georgia's Sam Nunn and David Boren of Oklahoma, who have made it clear that even a hint of employer mandates could be too much. "To have any chance," Boren insists, "we must knock out the triggered mandate." The fate of Mitchell's plan may lie in the hands of a dozen or so Senators in both parties, including Boren, Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey and Republicans John Chafee of Rhode Island and Missouri's John Danforth...
...Oklahoma Democrat David Boren declared himself "enthusiastic" about his group's handiwork, adding that "it has a chance to become law." And his colleague David Durenberger, a Republican who, like Boren, is not running for re-election, said the proposal "clearly provides the best opportunity in my 16 years ((in the Senate)) to do genuine health reform...
...morning show on the fX cable network, sidle from room to room in their spacious, apartment-like set in New York City. When not trading quips with a wisecracking hand puppet, they introduce segments that make Good Morning America look like The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour: a visit to an Oklahoma ostrich farm; an interview with a Florida man who makes furniture out of junk; a live report on Hula-Hoopers in the park across the street. This is homemade TV -- and proud of it. On the show's first broadcast, Bergeron playfully chased his executive producer around the set and accidentally...
...themselves. Of the competing bills in Congress, two are almost identical to Clinton's in philosophy, differing only in financing and thus the pace at which people would be pushed into the work force. The Mainstream Forum Plan, proposed by moderate House Democrats led by Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma, would put a three-year limit on how long a welfare recipient can stay in a publicly funded job. A G.O.P. bill submitted last November, which is sponsored by 160 out of 176 Republicans in the House, would speed up the work requirement so that half of all welfare recipients would...