Word: stated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amanda Kaplan, a senior at Masterman High in Philadelphia, wonders how the state can keep telling students there's no more money for education, "but then they find it for stadiums." Jessicah Smith, a senior at West Philadelphia High, has no problem with new stadiums, "but I'm against the idea of using public money." In December they and about 30 other students stood on the steps of city hall and put their own spin on The Twelve Days of Christmas: "Five budget cuts, four broken bathrooms, three schools a-rotting, two books per classroom and a stadium for [Eagles...
...Pennsylvania, state Representative John Lawless, a Republican from suburban Philadelphia, denounces the sub- sidies for that city's stadiums as "corporate welfare" and adds, "We're building playgrounds for millionaires who have no loyalty to the city." Playgrounds the average Joe can't afford to get into, as ticket prices soar...
...Crawford, spokesperson for Pittsburgh public schools, doesn't want the issue framed as stadiums vs. schools. "The state has enough to do both," she says. In Philadelphia, 80% of students are poor enough to have something in common with the team owners: they, too, qualify for a free lunch. Unfortunately, they don't have a lunchroom to eat it in at Willard. Maybe they can use the new sky boxes on nongame days...
...born two months prematurely and was placed in an incubator. The practice at the time was to pump a large amount of oxygen into the incubator, something doctors have since learned to be extremely cautious about. But as a result, I lost my sight. I was sent to a state school for the blind, but I flunked first grade because Braille just didn't make any sense to me. Words were a weird concept. I remember being hit and slapped. And you act all that in. All rage is anger that is acted in, bottled in for so long that...
...could communicate in the world of sight and sound--and was able to speak to it and live in it. I am a beneficiary of her work. Because of her example, the world has given way a little. In my case, I was able to go from the state school for the blind to regular public school from the age of 11 until my senior year in high school. And then I decided on my own to go back into the school for the blind. Now I sing jazz...