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...that have grown rapidly or been created following desegregation. The service said that a school could maintain its tax exemption if it had enough minority students and suggested that an appropriate guideline would be one-fifth of the minority percentage in the community. For example, if 25% of the schoolchildren living within a district's boundaries belonged to minorities, then a private school located in that district would need at least 5% minority students to qualify as tax exempt. If a school failed to meet that standard, then it would have to demonstrate such good-faith efforts as recruiting...
...workers back on the job to enable the pilgrims "to perform their religious duties toward Allah." The Shah himself stepped in and ordered the Imperial Air Force to transport the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Parents were growing impatient with the school closings, even if their offspring were not. Many schoolchildren took to the streets to join demonstrators and carry placards. It was, allowed eight-year-old Ali Safavi, more fun than "attending boring classes...
Sears says his historical awareness of the Commonwealth can be helpful in fostering community and economic development, whatever that means. He promises to work with schoolchildren, instilling a political awareness in the state's future voters. He differs sharply with Connolly on the issue of public financing of state elections, advocating little change for the state's existing weak financial supports...
Your report on the 16 million children of Brazil who must live on the streets of the cities [Sept. 11] should be required reading for all American schoolchildren. When children start cussing out their parents and wishing they were dead, they might be reminded that in Brazil their parents might have thrown them out on the street when they were only four...
...skill and piety. The man was called a peacemaker, a reformer, a voice of sanity crying, with hope, in the wilderness of a world grown unaccustomed to such virtues. In 1965 he came to New York, to speak at the United Nations, and it was not only the schoolchildren who cheered. Five hundred million Roman Catholics hung intently on the words from the man they felt quite comfortable calling "His Holiness...