Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funded according to a minimum foundation system, whereby each district is allotted an amount per student which is supplemented on an individual basis according to the property taxes the district pays. Thus, the districts with little or no valuable property receive far less money per student than property-rich districts. In 1968, a group of parents who felt their children were being cheated out of a good education charged that this financing system discriminates against the poor. The Supreme court judged that poverty could not be a cause for discrimination, but also stated that the right to education...
...Costa Rica does not honor its name. It does not have a rich coast. It is a very poor country," Arias said later. "Our best resource, undoubtedly, is our people, the knowledge, and the education of our youth. You're undoubtedly supporting the effort [of] previous generations [who] for a long time [have] had the wisdom to make education compulsory and free...
Harvard made the grade because of defense. If Harvard's opponents got past the midline, they had to contend with the Crimson's Triple Towers--Pennoyer and fellow Tri-Captains Michael Bergmann and Rich van den Broek...
...months before entering Harvard, I received a thick packet which contained lengthy pamphlets detailing Harvard's history, the Core curriculum, the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement, the Expository Writing program, the House system, the schedule for freshman week, and countless other tidbits too rich to be digested immediately. Buried amid this minutiae, however, was a summer reading list of just two works, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Education of Henry Adams...
...fact that it's Harvard makes you think not just twice but three or four or five times. They have the resources--they are very rich and very arrogant," Jackson said...