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...does not sit well with a lot of Americans. So at a time when religious faith is increasingly worn on public sleeves--most prominently that of the President--a dispute that dates back to the celebrated 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" is being replayed around the country in legislatures, courts, school-board meetings and parent-teacher conferences. School administrators in rural Dover, Pa., visited biology classes last week to read a declaration proclaiming, among other things, that "Darwin's theory [of evolution] ... is a theory, not a fact." And in suburban Cobb County, Ga., officials pasted stickers on biology textbooks declaring...
...tell a principal that a particular program doesn't work for their child and demand a change--and they keep demanding changes until they find the right one. Unlike many black parents, they feel that they are experts and the school staff works for them," says Cross, who became so active that she is now the school-board president...
...Golf Channel, a quick glimpse of a candidate who is in the area to raise some money. But if you live in Ohio or Wisconsin or Florida or Pennsylvania, you are getting more attention from the presidential campaigns than you would expect in a hotly contested school-board race. In the town of Portsmouth in Ohio's depressed southeastern corner, the turnout was high when President Bush visited last month. He was, after all, the first President that Portsmouth's citizens had seen in person since Herbert Hoover in 1932. Thousands cheered Kerry at his rally in Newark, the seat...
...life Atticus Finch who defended blacks in the era of Jim Crow. Elliott, 64, has struggled a lifetime to reconcile these mixed images of the South. But one picture noticeably absent from his gallery is that of his late grandfather, R.M. Elliott, a wealthy sawmill owner and former Summerton school-board chairman who, in the 1940s, refused to provide bus transportation for black students to reach their segregated schools, which were often 10 miles or more from their homes. "We ain't got no money to buy a bus for your n_____ children," R.M. Elliott declared. Says the younger Elliott...
...percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills pass automatically. Most will not be forced to repeat the same grade more than twice in elementary school, but those whose test scores fall below a certain level will be required to take remedial courses. The new policy is bolstered by an independent study--due for release April 6--conducted by the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. According to a school-board summary of its findings, which was leaked to the Chicago Sun-Times, the test scores of third-graders who were held back showed "no appreciable...