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...system was overseen by a multitude of local boards that were packed with political appointees, few of them experts in flood control. By the time Katrina arrived, the boards had a reputation for being more effective at handing out sweetheart contracts than at maintaining levees. Last month a special session of the state legislature succeeded in consolidating the boards into two bodies (one for each bank of the Mississippi) consisting of engineers and other specialists. The consolidation, which must still be approved by voters in September, was an essential signal to Congress that money sent to Louisiana would not drop...
...have returned (that number is expected to more than double by fall of 2007, when a lot of children will find themselves crammed into temporary classrooms). The devastation created an opening for Blanco and the state legislature to achieve a longtime goal of education reformers. During a special legislative session in November, the state took control of the 102 schools that had been performing below state standards. The state now has the power to decide which schools get rebuilt, how much is spent to rebuild them and how to run the ones that are back in business...
...question-and-answer session following the panel briefly touched on the recent reprinting of the cartoons in the Harvard Salient...
Early Thursday afternoon, Summers skipped a scheduled session with Institute of Politics fellows who just recently had arrived at Harvard for a semester of study...
Summers had also been scheduled to meet with The Crimson’s editorial board Thursday evening, but his spokesman, John D. Longbrake, cancelled that session early last week...