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...more explicit about what should happen to persistently failing schools. While the $4 billion federal Race to the Top competition, which began in 2009, gives states incentives to close schools after all other strategies to improve achievement have failed, Obama's new proposal is more ambiguous. It will permit states to shy away from making these tough choices--even though replacing failing schools can transform entire districts. In New York City, we've phased out more than 90 schools during the past seven years; these decisions haven't been politically popular, but the schools that replaced them have dramatically higher...
According to the notice posted on the door of 7 Holyoke St. (which is across the street from the New College Theatre), a public hearing to discuss granting a restaurant permit for the location was scheduled for Mar. 11, 2010. We just called the city's Board of Zoning Appeals, and they have confirmed—the permit was granted...
...were told that the transcript of the hearing isn't on file yet, so more details will have to come later. We do know, however, that the permit petitioner was Ayr Muir, an MIT grad and the CEO of Clover Food Lab. According to its Web site, Clover operates a "food truck" near MIT that features local (often organic) vegetarian fare on a menu that changes with the seasons. Yelp tells us that Clover food is both good and cheap. We think that's an auspicious sign...
...more explicit about what should happen to persistently failing schools. While the $4 billion federal Race to the Top competition, which began in 2009, gives states incentives to close schools after all other strategies to improve achievement have failed, Obama's new proposal is more ambiguous. It will permit states to shy away from making these tough choices - even though replacing failing schools can transform entire districts. In New York City, we've phased out more than 90 schools during the past seven years; these decisions haven't been politically popular, but the schools that replaced them have dramatically higher...
...order to deliver on this intimacy, Lerner has attempted to invent an entirely new form, rather than following the pre-existing structure of the sonnet or writing with the openness of free verse. He strictly regulates meter, punctuation, and stanza breaks, but not without constant and subtle variations, which permit his poems to avoid what Pound denounced as the “sequence of a metronome...