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Texas schools are funded according to a minimum foundation system, whereby each district is allotted an amount per student which is supplemented on an individual basis according to the property taxes the district pays. Thus, the districts with little or no valuable property receive far less money per student than property-rich districts. In 1968, a group of parents who felt their children were being cheated out of a good education charged that this financing system discriminates against the poor. The Supreme court judged that poverty could not be a cause for discrimination, but also stated that the right...
...Lucas improved blocking allowed him to become a full-time, all-around tight end. He snagged 19 receptions for 334 yards, almost 18 yards per reception, and three touchdowns...
...University allows each of the 1,700 seniors four tickets, says Janiel Strong of the University Marshal's Office. The graduate schools receive two-and-a-half tickets, per student, which they allot as they see fit, she says. Some, like the Education School, use a lottery, while others simply honor first requests...
Environmentalists and engineers know that hydrogen would make a better jet fuel than the standard aviation kerosene. In its liquid form, hydrogen packs more energy per pound than any other non-nuclear fuel and, burning, produces a plume of H2O. But there are major drawbacks, including cost. Extracting hydrogen from water or natural gas and cooling it to -423 degrees F make the fuel many times more expensive than kerosene, which goes for about $1 per...
...Princess Diana. The British study, however, is only a warm-up for a nearly completed analysis of 800 American eccentrics. The tentative conclusion: the U.S. has displaced Britain as the uncontested eccentricity capital of the world. Declares Weeks, a native of Garwood, N.J.: "America, particularly California, has more eccentrics per square foot than anywhere else...