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...sued the Stuttgart school authority, and after years of legal wrangling won her case in September, when the Constitutional Court ruled that Muslim teachers have the right to wear head scarves in school. "I felt discriminated against for years," says the Afghanistan-born Ludin, who now works in a private Islamic school in Berlin, "and this decision comes as a great relief." But the Court also decreed that Germany's 16 states were "free to establish the legal basis" for a head-scarf ban. In other words, state legislatures could ban head scarves from public-school classrooms if they felt...
Taking the microphone, Sullivan discussed the city’s progress in overcoming its educational weaknesses. He focused on Cambridge’s recent success in boosting literacy among its public-school students...
According to his high school classmate Jerome I. Levinson ’53, the transition was difficult for Verba because they were part of the first wave of Jewish students and public-school students to enter Harvard. No more than two students in any year had ever matriculated to Harvard from James Madison until four did in 1949, Levinson says...
...strain is showing. Military police whose voluntary enlistments are up have had their terms extended--involuntarily--for a year. Many earn less money while in uniform. (Echols' public-school employer makes up the shortfall, but he estimates that only half his troops are as lucky as he is.) And spouses can be left to tackle alone an overwhelming home life. Echols' wife Denise, who is studying to be a nurse, will have to take care of three kids--ages 8, 4 and 9 months--after he ships out. That's why, when her husband comes home, she plans...
...signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law last January, President Bush stood beside Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy in a public-school gymnasium and boasted of a bipartisan coup. "You're seeing government at its best," said Bush of the historic education legislation. "We figured out how to put our parties aside and focus on what's right for the American children." A year later, that focus is faltering. Kennedy, a prime sponsor of the bill, boycotted the East Room ceremony marking the law's anniversary because of a lack of resources for the legislation. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential hopefuls...