Word: parented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first piece of legislation the president signed, after 10 years of veto and haggling by the Republicans, was the Family and Medical Leave Act. This legislation gives working people freedom for the first time to take time from work to stay with a sick parent or child and know their job is secure...
...their duties than do principals working under union and district rules, including the power to hire and fire. Teachers at Vaughn work longer hours than they did before the school went charter, but they are paid more and given more authority. Every faculty member serves on one of eight parent-teacher committees that meet weekly and essentially run the school. "We don't want people who just clock in and out," says Chan. "This is not business as usual...
...parents, who must sign a three-page contract committing them to be involved in their child's education and to volunteer 30 hours in the school. Most seem pleased to be involved and amazed to be consulted on matters of substance. Says parent Nina Uribe: "It has been a beautiful change...
...Colfaxes make compelling spokespeople for the movement they did so much to legitimize. "We feel every parent is qualified to teach," Micki says. "If it doesn't work, fine, go on to something else. Even within one family, the learning skills might be different, so one ((child)) might work at home, the other might work at school. But I think the more the government gets involved, the less freedom parents have...
...today to pay former Navy pilot Paula Coughlin $1.7 million for failing to provide adequate security at the1991 Tailhook convention, where Coughlin says she was sexually assaulted by drunken aviators. A U.S. District Court jury in Las Vegas ruled after two days of deliberations that the hotel and its parent, Hilton Hotel Corp., acted with malice. Deliberations begin Monday on punitive damages. Coughlin sued the Navy and the hotel, but settled with the Navy. So far, the Tailhook scandal has resulted in the resignation of former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III and put on hold some 10,000 Navy...