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...Bush plan in action, consider the story of Spencer Bibbs Elementary in Pensacola, Fla. Meant to be a magnet school for science and technology, Spencer Bibbs instead posted abysmal test scores that landed it on the state's worst-performing list two years in a row. During the 1998-99 school year, just 26 percent of its students scored at the minimum-competency level of the state's reading exam...
...Last year Spencer Bibbs and neighboring A. A. Dixon Elementary became national guinea pigs as the first schools to lose kids to state-sponsored vouchers, thanks to Governor Jeb Bush's "A+ Schools" program, the model for his brother's national voucher plan. (As governor of Texas, George W. Bush tried but failed to get the legislature to pass a similar program.) Students at both Pensacola schools were offered as much as $4,000 in state aid to pay for private-school tuition. Under Bush's national proposal, failing schools that do not improve for three years would lose their...
...fast-growing, politically moderate area the Bush and Gore camps consider up for grabs and critical to their success. With a handful of exceptions, even voters who have decided on a candidate said they weren't thrilled with their choice. "Bush is the lesser of two evils," said Joe Spencer, 45, an electrical technician. Betty Ford, retired from the construction business at 52, felt the same way about Gore. "I just find him so - what's the word? - unbelievable. But it'll probably be Gore. The economy is good...
...tired of the moral degradation," said Joe Spencer's wife Nancy, 52, a switchboard operator. "In my book, what you do in your personal life does matter...
Then, freshman forward Spencer George received a pass from Buan, beat a Fairfield defender and found the back of the net, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead in the 32nd minute...