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There is no denying the key role that property levies have played in creating the vast educational gap between rich and poor. School trustees in the affluent Texas district of Glen Rose, for example, annually dole out $9,326 per pupil -- three times as much as the per-student allocation in the Rio Grande Valley's bleak Roma district. For reformers, the chief ally has been state courts, which have ruled in many cases -- Kentucky, Texas, New Jersey and Montana, for example -- that inequalities are unconstitutional. In Tennessee, 77 school districts asked a state court to take the same approach...
...contrast, Boston spends only $6679 per pupil each year and Somerville only $6199, according to the Massachusetts school department commissioner's office...
Choosing a valedictorian is usually a simple matter: the pupil with the top grades gets the honor. But for two rival students at Newton County High School in Covington, Ga., even a federal judge couldn't settle a dispute that has roiled the racially volatile school...
...troubled public ones in their communities. Unburdened by the bureaucracy and lethargy that bedevil most big-city school systems, and with a tradition of emphasizing discipline and academic rigor, they have generally been able to turn out better graduates -- while often spending less than half the money per pupil. Now the Roman Catholic Church, worried about declining enrollments and hopeful about the emerging political sentiment to allow public school parents greater choice in where they send their kids, has launched the most extensive marketing campaign ever for its brand of education. Billboards, banners and posters will be blanketing the nation...
...early and vocal supporter of Ronald Reagan, Campbell has attempted to position himself as a nondoctrinaire conservative. Though he sides with the right against abortion and for school prayer, he has linked himself to issues like education and the environment. In a state whose per pupil expenditures rank near the bottom nationally, Campbell has helped increase state funding for schools. He has also provided money for public health programs to combat infant mortality...