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...have enough dedicated people working on it and you mobilize the entire community,” she says.A quarter-century later, Nolan, now a mother of two, is using her desire for social change and the analytical tools that she learned while working as a consultant to try to reform the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS).In late March, during the last stages of the school system’s budget-drafting process, Nolan raised eyebrows with a proposal that would have reallocated $1.5 million to principals next year.“Resources have not shifted directly into our schools...
...Skip School!") read flyers plastered up and down Cicero's Cermak Road. Rather than advocating work and spending stoppages or classroom boycotts, as is the case in other cities. Chicago protest leaders are taking a more moderate approach. Sending a united message calling for "fair and reasonable" reform, Chicago area leaders are mobilizing voter registration tables, legalization petitions directed at members of Congress and public demonstrations. Two large marches, one from the north, the other from the south, are scheduled to converge at a huge rally in downtown Grant Park this afternoon...
...Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote-rigging in last November's parliamentary elections - an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform. Mubarak, 78, has been in power for 25 years, and his anemic response to these crises is a worrying sign. "The regime is tending toward immobility," says Hugh Roberts, a Cairo-based director of the International Crisis Group. "Old repressive reflexes are in full swing, which suggests that the regime...
...grappling with how to reform its intelligence agencies, which have been hit by leaks and questions about tactics. As during the cold war, THE SPY's job, if sometimes unglamorous, remains vital to national security...
...Alexandria in mid-April. And police clashed last week in Cairo with demonstrators protesting disciplinary action against two high-court judges who alleged widespread vote rigging in last November's parliamentary elections--an embarrassing episode for a government that has been urged by the Bush Administration to implement democratic reform...