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...state and national norms. In Philadelphia, however, Chancellor Beacon became the only management company fired by the district. According to Philly schools chief Vallas, the company failed to "create a presence" and didn't provide teacher training, shrink class size or offer after-school programs--all goals of the reform board that awarded the contracts. Contesting those claims, Chancellor Beacon points to more than $1.5 million in textbooks it purchased, hours of training it offered and in-depth studies it conducted on its five schools...
...schizoid regime in Iran--technically led by President Mohammed Khatami, whose attempts at reform have been stymied by supreme religious leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei--may be able to quell this rebellion, as it did a similar movement in 1999, aided by progovernment civilian militias. "Our leader has ordered us to protect the revolution," said Assad, a corpulent militia member, as he attempted to stop cars heading to the protests Friday. Assad characterizes the students as "prostitutes and gays...
...benefits to those who join private health plans--those inducements are smaller than the White House would like. And the plan may cost too much; this week the Congressional Budget Office will determine whether its price tag pushes Medicare's cost over the $400 billion allowed by Congress for reforms. Still, the proposal is winning encouragement from the White House as well as from Democratic veterans of the health-care debate like Senator Ted Kennedy, who now seems less likely than the White House had feared to lead a filibuster against a Bush-backed plan. "It's a long process...
...country's floating population of migrant laborers?the lowest of the low in China's quickly re-emerging class pyramid?abuses tend to be overlooked except in the most egregious cases. Although several of these instances have made it into the national press, they rarely elicit calls for reform...
...Until now. Since late April when a Guangzhou newspaper, the Southern Metropolis News, published a detailed account of Sun's case, China's media, academic circles and Internet chat rooms have been abuzz with demands for reform and even abolition of the system. Sun's status as a college-educated up-and-comer rather than an out-of-work farmhand has fueled widespread outrage. "You were imprisoned because you would not be a pet animal or a slave," read one of many eulogies to Sun posted on the Internet. Lending force to this outcry is the fact that China...