Word: opted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raise many issues, but one of them you avoid is school choice, the notion that parents can opt to send their kids to private schools, using public funds to help them...
...many of my undergraduate peers opt to enjoy only the Yale rivalry I will never understand. Sure it is the granddaddy of them all, but the overwhelming array of festivities, tents and tailgates, the beer and the billions of people, cannot match the intimacy of the average Ivy weekend...
SETI's second assumption--that intelligent beings would definitely opt for radio transmission as medium--is where Frank Tippler disagrees...
...surface, Cuomo's thesis is unassailable, and two likely Democratic initiatives -- health-care legislation and a tax-rate cut for middle-class Americans -- will resonate among voters. But like any other incumbent President, Bush has an almost limitless ability to co-opt the agenda. The Democrats have already been forced to respond to Bush's vision of education reform, and his flip-flop on the issue of extending unemployment benefits proves his political suppleness...
...Arkansas, roughly 15 states have taken the next step and have enacted or are seriously debating legislation to allow children to attend public schools outside their own districts. Again, such cross-district transfers are generally not permitted if they would undermine racial balance; white students, for example, cannot opt out of schools in Minneapolis or Little Rock. So far, few parents have taken advantage of their newly found freedom; in Minnesota about 1% of the state's students have attended schools outside the districts where they reside. Choice advocates believe that the principle is as important as any numerical test...