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...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...
...Weld has a new emergency allotment for education that we wouldn't qualify for," Rafferty says. The money will go to schools with a low cost-per-pupil ratio of "4000 dollars or less," according to Rafferty...
...city's cost-per-pupil ration ranked third in the state in 1989, the last time a survey of such costs was taken...
...concentration to perfect, has revitalized the sport in another way. Now anyone in the top talent pool can win any given competition. Says American coach Carol Heiss Jenkins: "It will be more like tennis -- the winner will be whoever is good on that day." She should know: her pupil Lisa Ervin, a mere 14 years old, leaped her way into fourth place at last month's U.S. national championships. Another two points and she would have been the youngest competitor at Albertville...
...thought of a girl at a mirror realizing that she is now a woman. It seems that when Yamaguchi boards with Bezic to work on the routines, she ends the day in front of the mirror in her room, going over her moves. Her coach calls her an ideal pupil. "She never forgets any nuance," says Bezic. "Last July I asked her to look straight at the judges over her shoulder at a certain moment, and in January there she was on TV doing...