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...once considered their state a retirement community. Reflecting a Sunbelt trend, Florida's youth-population growth outpaced that of the elderly in the 1990s for the first time in the state's history--and its dysfunctional, overcrowded schools look woefully unprepared for that shift. Bush has pushed education reform, assigning A+ to F grades for schools statewide in an effort to raise test scores. Still, Florida ranks 40th in K-12 per-pupil spending. It's a key reason why tax-allergic Floridians have put expensive initiatives for universal pre-K and class-size limits on the Nov. 5 ballot...
Ever since the U.S. unveiled its radical new policy of bringing democracy to the Islamic world--whether through reform in Palestine or at the point of a gun in Iraq--the Bush Administration has come under attack for inconsistency and hypocrisy. Indeed, when our most critical ally in the war on terrorism, President Musharraf of Pakistan, gave himself dictatorial power for at least five years, that earned him but a few mild words of concern from the State Department...
Could the No Child Left Behind Act backfire? The get-tough education-reform bill, signed with great fanfare by President Bush eight months ago, mandates annual testing and promises to hold students and schools to a higher standard. But now that the Education Department has released its first list of nearly 9,000 failing schools, some states contend that the standard is too high, and a growing number are taking steps to lower the bar by which students are judged...
...their cases if the law is approved. Cossiga added that if ultimately found guilty, Berlusconi should resign. While leaving his conflict-of-interest legislation on the back burner despite a campaign pledge to resolve it during his first 100 days in office, Berlusconi has been busy pushing his "justice reform" package. It appears to have less to do with justice than with procedural maneuvering in the last cases remaining from a series of probes into his business activities. Over the past decade, an array of separate fraud or corruption cases have concluded with no convictions, as judges have absolved Berlusconi...
...states will adopt these policies,” he said. “That will be the engine for reform...