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...changed calendar did little for Fanny Finch Elementary, a year-round school in McKinney, Texas. It was so hot there in July that the school regularly canceled recess and families started leaving for other districts. After five restless summers in class--and negligible student improvement--the school is switching back to a traditional timetable. "My kids missed out on family vacations and swimming lessons, and on just being kids," says mother Darlene Clark. "I kind of missed the summer myself...
...House are so dependent on special-interest campaign contributions and so mired in partisan gridlock, plaintiffs' lawyers say, that it is often impossible to get anything done there. Exhibit A is Congress's failure to act on the Patients' Bill of Rights before it fled Washington for its summer recess. Ask Scruggs if trial lawyers are trying to run America, and he doesn't bother to deny it. "Somebody's got to do it," he says, laughing...
...both sides of the issue return next week from their July 4th recess, they are re-loading their muskets. Reformers plan to gather Monday to pick which issue on their long list will drive their next ambush. DeLay has vowed to keep fighting just as hard to support groups like the Republican Majority Issues Coalition. "They're not going to intimidate me," said the outspoken whip. So, despite all the celebration, no one is calling for fireworks just yet. Unless they're for battle...
Each morning at 7:45, sleepy-eyed pupils file off yellow buses and begin a typical school day: breakfast, recess, class, lunch, more recess and more classes. Many come from nearby shelters, though Pappas' buses can find them on a day's notice wherever they've landed for the night--whether at a flophouse or by the side of a highway. Most of the kids need remedial help, having missed months or years of school because their families moved around...
Vice Mayor Maher had to chair the meeting for a brief period while Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio attended an awards ceremony for a high school mentoring program. He returned during the council's recess before 9 p.m., but the meeting lasted past midnight...