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...didn't really happen organically. Over the past decade, Berkeley has become a paragon of school-lunch reform, thanks to the woman who helped hire Cooper--California cuisine pioneer Alice Waters. "We have to go into the public-school system and educate children when they're very young," says Waters, whose famed Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, features seasonal meals made from local produce. Waters started educating children 10 years ago, creating the Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. There, kids spend 90 minutes a week planting and harvesting produce and cooking their own healthy food...
...Katrina-damaged school buses that New Orleans hopes to sell on eBay to raise money for its public-school system. Bids on one hit $5,500 within 29 hours...
...Days after California voters had handed their governor his biggest political defeat yet by rejecting all four of his ballot initiatives on Nov. 8, Shi Wa Xin Ge was mobbed by the Chinese public on whose minds the verdict of California voters on matters such as tenure for public-school teachers did not weigh heavily. Schwarzenegger's action flicks were among the first Hollywood blockbusters that made it to China courtesy of bootleg videotapes, and the nation rewarded the Austrian-born actor by hosting a week-long Arnold Schwarzenegger Film Festival in 2000-the first and only Chinese event...
While Schwarzenegger may have frittered away much of his political capital, the four reform initiatives he has been pushing are far from frivolous. They propose that public-school teachers become eligible for tenure after five years, up from two; that public-service unions need to get permission from individual members before using their dues for political purposes; that the state implement a mechanism to cap spending; and that voting districts be redrawn by retired judges instead of legislators. A poll released last week by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that none of the initiatives are supported...
...church-and-state barrier. Her department noted that in Louisiana's flood-impacted communities, 25% of the students had been enrolled in private schools--should government simply ignore them? "We are not provoking a voucher debate," Spellings contended, "as much as trying to provide aid for these displaced families, whether they have been in private schools or public schools." Her proposal seems carefully crafted to avoid substantive constitutional objections. Although it calls for the distribution of the public-school funds primarily through districts, the private-school money is directed not to schools but to families, in keeping with the concerns...