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Over the next two years, the team will design an ambitious core curriculum, which will assume that today's high school education could be completed by a Whittle pupil by the age of 12. The first schools will initially accept children only from three months to six years of age. With each succeeding year, another class can be added, as the system grows along with its first generation of students. Whittle is leaning toward a "campus" approach for the schools, with all grades (including day-care facilities) located at the same site. Working parents are to be offered flexible class...
...paintings now agreed to be indubitably by the master -- the finest "pure" Rembrandt show in memory. The second consists of a dozen "Rembrandts" now assigned to artists who worked with him; each of these is shown with two or three other paintings known to be by that pupil. In all, it is a wonderfully illuminating show, and it makes an unanswerable case for purifying the Rembrandt canon -- without touching a third category, that of deliberate forgeries...
...most accounts, public education in the state weakened during his years as governor. As the public voted in a referendum to pass a major tax-cut, funding dropped. During his tenure, California slipped from 18th to 31st nationally in per pupil school financing...
While high school graduation rates improved during that period, standardized test scores, per-pupil expenditures and teacher pay remain among the nation's worst...
...city's cost-per-pupil ration ranked third in the state in 1989, the last time a survey of such costs was taken...