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Like Blakney, other teachers as well as students and administrators in Philadelphia's worst-performing elementary and middle schools have been forced to undertake some radical changes this year after a reform panel awarded control of 45 failing schools in the city to seven independent operators. The outside contractors include Edison, based in New York City and the largest of the companies that manage public schools as a business; Victory Schools, a much smaller New York City firm with schools in that city aswell as in Baltimore, Md.; and the Chancellor Beacon Academies of Coconut Grove, Fla., which operates charter...
...week with a key summit of European leaders in Brussels, where a top item on the agenda is the financing of the European Union's enlargement. The Netherlands has been the most aggressive of the so-called Gang of Four, pressing alongside Germany, Sweden and the U.K. for radical reform of subsidies in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). After the Germans and the British, the Dutch are the largest net contributors to the program. The government wants to make enlargement conditional on reform of cap, an idea that is anathema to France, the biggest beneficiary of the Union's agricultural...
...hike, left him sitting in the chair with his thick black hair dripping wet while the barber went next door to fetch his daughter, also a hairdresser, who gave Veltchev another earful. As one of the most recognizable figures in government and the architect of a series of unpopular reforms, Veltchev has become used to such situations. But impassioned as his critics can be, they've never slugged him. No, says Veltchev, the black eye was the result of some early morning hoops action. Whatever obstacles he faces on the basketball court, Veltchev's task of restructuring Bulgaria's economy...
...black market has risen, but people can't afford to buy it: Although salaries have been raised, the government has only actually paid them once since July. People need to supplement meager government rations with rice bought at exorbitant prices on the black market. "This was a reform for the rich," says Lee. "Things are worse than before...
...conventional wisdom has always been that North Korea is afraid to open the door a crack because the system could unravel so quickly. Some defectors and aid workers report that there is a sense of instability and uncertainty in the country right now. Rather than the start of reform, we may be seeing a country starting to unravel already...