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...Linda Neri, communications manager for the Massachusetts Coalition for Higher Standards, a public-interest group specializing in the issue of the MCAS, points to a piece of information she says many worried parents and teachers may not know: students who do not pass the test in the 10th grade can retake the test in the 11th and 12th grades...
...Without the grant from the public-interest auction, I doubt that I would have been able to work for a government organization," he said...
...retiring New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Come January 1997, one of the best things President Clinton could do would be to appoint Bradley to head a bipartisan commission to come up with ideas for reforming political campaigns and their financing. Democracy demands that our government leaders serve the public-interest majority, not the special-interest minority. PAUL WHITELEY SR. Louisville, Kentucky Via E-mail...
...counsel POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1988- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 8088, Newport Beach 92658. Tel.: 714-786-3600 A former counsel to President Reagan and a respected House intellectual, Cox was elected chairman of the G.O.P. Policy Committee by his Republican colleagues. He has been called "golden bulldog" by a public-interest group for his consistent votes to limit government spending. Though his name is on some vice-presidential lists, for now it seems Cox will stay at the eastern end of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...life of McGeorge Bundy [NATION, Sept. 30], former adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, he deserves more than a mention about his superb contribution to the public well-being during his 13 years as president of the Ford Foundation. I worked for the foundation under Bundy, and while he was there, he inspired a staff of independent spirits to make major advances in public broadcasting, civil rights, public-interest law, energy conservation, the education of minorities at all levels, agricultural research in developing countries and much more. RICHARD MAGAT Bronxville, New York