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...University and local officials secured more than $30 million in grants and helped overhaul the district's curriculum and teaching methods. Some schools wiped out uninspired drills and work sheets in the younger grades, and high schools began pushing students to take three years each of rigorous college preparatory math and science. Before UTEP stepped in, just a small percentage of students took Algebra II and Chemistry; now more than half do. Compared with 1994, when just one school in the university-aided districts netted an exemplary rating on state exams, last year 18 did. Most important, the university ascribes...
...grousing about the current situation, and the tumult it so memorably precipitated over the weeks following the election, most constitutional scholars agree that sweeping changes are unlikely. We're a nation fond of tradition - particularly our own - and while we're probably ready for some serious overhaul to the ballots themselves (perhaps in the form of federalized voting standards - no more chads!) it won't be easy to convince the political establishment to vanquish a voting methodology as old as the country itself...
...panelists were skeptical about a total overhaul of the electoral process...
...Palm Beach ballots, among others), thus violating the Equal Protection clause guaranteeing the uniform treatment of all votes cast in an election. And let's not forget that the standards for recounting differed from county to county. Furthermore, Rehnquist et al. opined, any constitutional recount would require a drastic overhaul of existing standards - not to mention a time frame allowing for judicial review and legal challenges. Such "serious work" could never be undertaken and completed before the cutoff date for elector selection, the Court added, because, hey, what do you know? That date is today...
...years, featured explosive wide receivers Randy Moss and Cris Carter and running back Robert Smith, and had as good a chance as any other team to get to the next Super Bowl. Just adjust the dials a bit, right? Not by Green's logic. He went for a thorough overhaul. Dispense with the veteran leadership of Jeff George and Randall Cunningham at quarterback, and give the ball to a second-year guy who had never thrown a pass in the NFL. Brass does not do Green justice...