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...teacher possesses a humility and simplicity that contrast dramatically with the haughty demeanor of the Shah. "Here there is no professor-student relationship," says a pupil. "What we have is dialogue. We sit as equals with him, staying until we have mastered a series of books on Islam. It is age, learning and holiness that distinguish him from the rest of us." But Sharietmadari is also tough and politically canny. He opposes the regime for many reasons, including its record of torture, censorship and bribery. Despite his public modesty, he displays total confidence about his status among his 32 million...
...YORK CITY. Partly as a result of white flight to the suburbs, the school population, just short of a million students, is now 70% black and Hispanic. But with an education budget of $2.8 billion, the city can spend over $2,500 a pupil, as much as many expensive private schools. More than half of the 15,000 teachers laid off during New York's worst financial crisis have been rehired. Two months before the fall term, teachers negotiated a two-year contract calling for a 4% annual raise. The city also has an optimistic new administrator, Frank Macchiarola...
Through it all, Kenyatta remained something of an enigma. He changed his reputation at least as often as he altered his name?from Kamau wa Ngengi to Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...
...federally financed public housing projects. The program, which originally covered 512,000 children, now blankets 2.4 million. So long as 3% of the kids in a school district fall into one of the many categories designated, the district gets sums that can be more than $2,000 per pupil...
...black, and enrollment (now 340) fell by two-thirds. More students are applying now, but the church says it cannot continue its $150,000 annual subsidy, which covers a third of the school's budget (the rest comes from tuition and assorted fund-raising ventures). The cost per pupil runs $1,300 a year, compared with a $900 average in the archdiocese (and $1,700 in Chicago public schools). The cruel story is repeated in many urban ghettos. The church is unable or unwilling to subsidize education for non-Catholics (60% of the Providence-St. Mel enrollment...