Word: saigh
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Many experts welcomed most of Bennett's proposals as sound, if somewhat familiar. "Shoot," said Robert Saigh, director of public information for the Chicago public schools, "we're in step with all of that, and have been for years." Some educators, however, bristled at Bennett's suggestion that professionals from outside the teaching ranks -- business executives or retired military officers, for example -- might sometimes be brought in as grade school principals. Some critics also accused him of taking too rosy a ! view of the state of primary schooling and failing to address such questions as learning difficulties and the special...