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...balance. The problem, critics argue, is that parents have no say, and even bad schools are rewarded with full student bodies and tax revenues. That is beginning to change. In locations as diverse as New York's East Harlem, San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., parents are now free to select what they judge to be the best public school in their district. Minnesota goes even further. It is phasing in a plan that by 1990 will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state. More than 20 other states have passed or are considering bills that would...
...choice program, requires no federal dollars. States, cities and school districts simply give parents permission to move their children from schools they do not like to ones they do. Under some open-enrollment plans, parents are limited to the choices located in their district; under others, they can select from among schools in neighboring districts as well. In either case, the desire for racial balance can restrict the choice of schools...
Tonight the Leverett House Music Society presents a select all-campus talent cabaret featuring programs from musicians to actors and dancers from all across campus. The presentation will take place in the Leverett House JCR, to the right of the entrance to Leverett. Call 498-2792 for details...
...contrast to the present courtordered system in which parents have no input in choosing their children's school, Alves and Willie proposed "controlled choice," a plan which allows parents to select their children's schools so long as each school remains desegregated. Such a plan has been successfully implemented in Cambridge and Little Rock...
PRESIDENT Bush has only now begun to select a foreign policy team for Central America; Vice-President Quayle calls for "the elimination of human rights." Meanwhile in aid-dependent El Salvador two important initiatives--one toward the end of the eight-year civil war, another toward a new Central American peace--mark serious steps for regional autonomy...