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...addition, Nicholas T. Mitropoulos, executive director of the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government, is reportedly among those helping Menino select the members of the transition team...
Another oversight of Proposition 174 involved the issue of transportation. School choice allows parents to select schools from a wide variety of geographic locations with considerable commuting distances. In the interests of equity and fairness, the state should eliminate the artificial barrier of excessive transportation cost by providing tax credits to the parents who pay transportation costs out-of-pocket...
...with a cap placed upon a 60-mile radius from the voucher school, for example. Those commuting 0-30 miles might receive one fixed amount of tax credit, and those commuting 30-60 miles another. This fixed-income form of payment would encourage carpooling and create an incentive to select the cheapest available means of transportation...
...election also drew a select group of committed citizens who spent a day running the polling operation...
Take, for example, the rules about alcohol and the "punch" process, whereby the clubs select new members...