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...report published last month by Johns Hopkins University ranked Houston 28th in school completion out of the nation's 35 largest school systems, with less than half of ninth-graders at most of the district's high schools sticking it out through graduation. Says Guadelupe San Miguel, a parent with three children in the district and an expert on Hispanic education: "The high-stakes testing Paige has built his reputation on has come at a significant cost to the community...
...surprise move late last Tuesday night, the School Committee voted four to three to reject a proposal by CRLS administrators to continue a new policy--established just this year--that leaves parent choice out of the equation when placing incoming ninth-graders in CRLS' five "small school" learning communities...
Adopting a tactic employed by Al Gore '69 during his presidential campaign, Galluccio repeatedly referred to the stories of Cambridge students and residents who were present in the crowd, such as resident Olga Ospina, a working parent who was having trouble finding affordable housing...
...again and hit pay dirt with a British couple. Alan Kilshaw, a lawyer, and his wife Judith have two sons together, and she has two daughters from a previous marriage. But the Kilshaws wanted another baby, had failed to conceive and feared they would be rejected as adoptive parents in Britain because Judith is 47. They paid Johnson $12,500 to find a baby. When they expressed interest in Kiara and Keyara, Wecker flew to San Bernardino and arranged with the Allens to take the girls for what she described as a two-day holiday "to say goodbye." Instead...
...babies, including a stroller for the "rough road" market from Eddie Bauer. The Jeep strollers are the first to be named after an auto brand. "It seemed like a natural fit," says Gail Smith, marketing vice president for Chicago-based Kolcraft Enterprises, which licensed the Jeep name from parent company DaimlerChrysler. "They're geared to handle urban potholes," she notes. How about bumpy hills? "I don't know that you'd want to take a baby up a mountain in them...