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When President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, he held an elaborate bill-signing ceremony in which he promised that his education reform would bring hope to kids like Kendrick. The law calls for states to test students in third to eighth grade each year in reading and math. In 53% of U.S. schools, which receive direct Federal Government funding because they have large numbers of low-income students, students can transfer to another school or receive free tutoring if their school fails for two years in a row to improve its test scores. Bush...
MIXED MARKS: Bush's education reform is helping some kids but may be underfunded and overready to declare schools to be failures...
Given the other issues at hand, you might not think welfare reform would be a hot one for President Bush. But he has long wanted to toughen the 1996 law that led to a dramatic reduction in welfare rolls and imposed work requirements on many recipients--and he is now a step closer. Voting along party lines, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill last week that would replace the expired 1996 law with a stricter set of rules. The measure would raise the number of hours that welfare recipients must work or be enrolled in training or course work...
...VALERIE BRESNIHAN, Irish Penal Reform Trust...
...conditions were often "filthy," sometimes left naked or in their underwear. The delegation called these practices "inhuman and degrading" and called on the authorities to end them immediately. The government has promised new observation cells for inmates with psychiatric problems, but according to Valerie Bresnihan of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, "they aren't abolishing padded cells, just revamping them. Our prisons remain in serious breach of international standards on human rights," she says. The Irish government has long promised an independent police-complaints commission, but even if it is created, critics fear the vast majority of complaints will still...