Word: reformers
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Originally, he became interested from reading The New York Times and Showdown at Gucci Gulch, which recounts Bradley's efforts in the 1986 Tax Reform Bill...
...enforcement and California Indian tribes, each of whom would appear to have got nice air kisses in return. But Garry South, Davis' senior political adviser, says there's a long list of contributors who aren't very happy, beginning with the state teachers' union. The Governor's education-reform package offers a carrot--cash bonuses for teachers and schools that pump up test scores. But there's also a stick--negative teacher evaluations will be sent to local school boards...
...Campaign-finance reform has a nice and legitimate ring to it," says Davis, whose two primary opponents last year put up $60 million together, almost all of it their own, against his $10 million. "But it is also an invitation to every Silicon Valley billionaire to spend his own money" to get elected in an effort to bury "people who have devoted most of their lives to public service...
...choose the social system, ideology, economic system and path of development that suit its national conditions," he said. But the significant message he stressed in his talk was that economic and political liberalization would continue. "The Chinese people," he said, "will firmly and unswervingly follow the path of reform and opening...
CRACK THOSE BOOKS Just how good are those textbooks your kids bring home from school? Project 2061, a math-, science- and technology-education reform initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has just rated the most widely used middle school science textbooks. Not one got a satisfactory grade. It isn't that the books are chock full of mistakes; rather they don't teach kids critical thinking. Since textbook publishers seldom make changes unless sales are threatened, parents and educators need to push for better materials...