Word: ola
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...promoted, and that there are activists associated with the school who have contacts to terrorist groups." But parents claim the terrorism allegations are a mask for the government's real motive: to stop the influx of Muslims, especially Arabs, into Bonn. "We are deeply offended," says Mohamad Ayesh Abul-Ola, 52, a Palestinian who has lived in Germany for more than 20 years and sends his kids to King Fahd. "People just want to be able to send their children to an Arab school to have contact with Arabian culture." The King Fahd Academy is a Saudi-run school established...
Angry Cantabrigians are boarding protest buses, Amigos and Ola are fighting for their lives, and an unpopular school board has to sort through it all. A $2.6 million budget deficit and decades of declining enrollment mean that at least two Cambridge elementary schools have to close, and it’s not an easy decision for the beleaguered school board and the district’s lame-duck superintendent, Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, to make. One way or another, someone’s beloved neighborhood school will get the axe, and probably one of the valuable Amigos...
...worst performing schools—the Fitzgerald School and the Harrington School—which have among the lowest MCAS scores in the district. After two better-performing schools move onto the empty campuses, the school district will have merged five student bodies into three, and Ola will have moved across the city, an action that will likely destroy the program...
...That means incoming teachers need to continue offering their old students an excellent education, while at the same time working with new struggling students to help them catch up and integrate into a more rigorous academic environment. Ideally, the district should also find a way to keep the Ola program where it is, so it can continue to serve Cambridge’s Portuguese-speaking students in a neighborhood that gives such strong community support...
Patients like Chavez are part of what doctors in Tijuana call la ola verde--the "green wave" of Southern California residents washing into the border city's medical clinics. Attracted by low prices and easy access, cash-paying travelers, most of them Latino, have for years come from as far north as San Francisco to obtain medical and dental care in Tijuana and other border towns. But these days, the patients are carrying fewer greenbacks and more plastic insurance cards, as a growing number of U.S. health-insurance companies offer bargain prices for those willing to get their care...