Word: preschooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget resolution, might be able to sway enough conservative Democrats to pass their own budget plan. Democrats decided to reverse some of their cuts. Perkins called his committee Democrats into caucus and chose to restore $1.75 billion for such programs as school impact aid, student loans and Head Start preschool education centers. The committee offset that by eliminating $1.57 billion from other programs -$1 billion from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) job program, as the Administration had recommended...
...students," says the Rev. Paul Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral education and free-enterprise economics in small classes (average pupil-teacher ratio...
...where absolutely everything has been swept away." Though a cleanup is well under way, tens of thousands of Chinese are still living in makeshift tar-paper shacks, and millions are getting by on a starvation diet of about 14 oz. of coarse grains daily. Nearly a quarter of the preschool children in the hardest hit area have contracted such water-borne diseases as hepatitis, dysentery and schistosomiasis...
...interior decorator), the father of the only Reagan grandchild (Cameron, 2), the owner of a house in the suburbs (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), he was a cheerful, popular and politically compatible weekend campaigner for his father. He admits, however: "It was a while before I found a direction." A preschool tot when Reagan and Wyman were divorced, Mike was bounced around three secondary schools. He played quarterback well enough to be offered a scholarship by Arizona State, but turned it down after deciding the college squad took football too seriously: "They were all 275-lb. Mean Joe Greene types." Instead, Mike...
...cost of the preschool program was $5,984 a child for two years. Weikart and Schweinhart estimate, though, that eventual dollar savings for society could be considerable, not only because of less remedial instruction in school, but because of decreased expenditures for law enforcement and social welfare...