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Bomaster and workers like him are a big part of the reason that amid record losses by its competitors, Southwest last week reported $75 million in earnings for the third quarter and stands as the only profitable U.S. airline among the top eight. AMR, parent of American Airlines, the world's largest, just reported a third-quarter loss of $924 million. U.S. Airways is reorganizing under bankruptcy protection, and industry experts expect it will soon be joined by United Airlines. Delta has announced that "to survive for the long term" it will lay off an additional...
...highly relevant production given today’s political climate, and hopes that the production will stimulate thought and debate among the entire community of theatergoers. The play also experiments with the multimedia, incorporating contemporary art with both sculptural and video elements. First-years are invited to bring their parents and get in free with the purchase of a parent ticket. Tickets are available at the Harvard Box Office and the Loeb Box Office for $12, $8 for Harvard students...
...specially recruited for its schools. But unlike the other two for-profit companies, Chancellor Beacon has been slow to roll out changes, instead beginning the year by studying the problem through teacher surveys, classroom visits and student test scores. In coming weeks the company plans to convene a parent round table, introduce new math and reading curricula and step up training for teachers. "There are things here that are working and things thataren't, and we're taking time to figure that out,"says Sam Howard, director of school operations for Chancellor Beacon...
...biggest change since Victory's arrival, says Perry, is in the school's once easy going principal. Duke, 52, is an administrator who spends her weekends painting the library walls and her nights poring over special-education paperwork, who patiently fields an early-morning parent phone call about the weather, saying, "It's nice out, but she might need a jacket." Before the take-over, says Perry, "She was a total softy. Not anymore." Whereas last year Duke often accepted excuses fortardiness or fighting, now she quickly doles out suspensions to troublemakers in the school's upper grades. The toughened...
While policymakers and administrators will view success in Philadelphia largely in terms of scores, the families in the schools will grade it by their own standards. Tanya Denmark, who is sending her third child through Shoemaker Middle School in West Philadelphia, regularly attends parent meetings, often checks in with teachers and enforces strict rules at home about homework and uniforms. With her daughter Shaliah, 12, about to enter seventh grade, Denmark closely followed news reports on Chancellor Beacon Academies, the private company designated to take over her neighborhood school. Shaliah had been attending a charter school that Denmark says turned...