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...Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, which promotes school reforms, the number of children receiving government money for private school is roughly 30,000, with a "handful" involving federal funds. The Spellings plan assumes roughly 60,000 federally funded private-school placements. Finn, an Assistant Education Secretary under Ronald Reagan, approves of it as "compassionate and constitutional." Andrew Rotherham, a co-director of a think tank called the Education Sector and a former Clinton education adviser, says the proposal's eventual legitimacy may depend on details Spellings has not yet made available. "As a temporary initiative to help families in exceptional circumstances...
...slates and certainly have biases, what Roberts has given us is a commitment to think. His refusal to answer questions on future cases is his admirable refusal to pre-judge a case before hearing out its merits. This is an unexpected revelation from a man who worked in the Reagan administration, appointed by an intensely ideological president...
...Bush returns to Mississippi and Louisiana on Tuesday, and on Thursday travels to the Ronald Reagan Building to deliver what his staff is billing as a new speech about the war on terror. Oh, and remember Social Security? Many Republicans on Capitol Hill believe that Katrina diminished the already slim chances that a significant bill will pass this year. But on Wednesday, he will invite still cameras into the Roosevelt Room to show him meeting with the President?s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Ironically, that divisive issue will give the president momentary respite in a week of friendly fire...
Bush expressed similar sentiments, and was surprised to learn that Roberts was working in the Reagan administration in the eighties...
When asked about memoranda he had written while working for former Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Roberts stressed that the views he expressed in those documents represented the views of those administrations, not necessarily...