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Religion. The wall separating church from state will be tested in a case from Omaha that also touches on freedom of speech. The court will review the constitutionality of the federal Equal Access Act, which opens up public schools to student religious groups when any "noncurriculum-related" student group is allowed to meet on school grounds...
...love and patience. That formula had already worked wonders with Tuan, now 14, a Vietnamese refugee who had come to Mazzafro four months earlier, speaking no English and still toting the cardboard box that had been his bed at a relocation center in Malaysia. Now he's an honors student at the local junior high, while Michael has become a computer whiz with his sights set on Princeton. Meanwhile, Joe Mazzafro is applying his methods to Brandon, 9, his third adopted son, who tumbled through nine foster homes in his first eight years. When he joined the family last year...
...being tried around the country. In locations from San Francisco to New York's East Harlem, parents are free to shop around for what they judge to be the best public school in the district. Minnesota goes further: it is phasing in a program that by 1990 will allow students to attend virtually any public school in the state so long as the move does not harm desegregation efforts. Earlier this year, Arkansas, Iowa, Ohio and Nebraska adopted similar plans; eleven other states are moving toward choice. But it is unclear how many families will take advantage of such freedom...
...original amendment was also attacked asbeing unconstitutional Members of the StudentPress Law Association, a Washington legal firmthat advises student newspapers, lobbied severalsenators this week to change the amendment, saidthe firm's executive director, Mark Goodman...
Continuing its tradition of promoting new talent, both among the student population and from the greater Cambridge-Boston area, the Dunster House Music Society sponsors its first concert of the year this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. Gerry Itzkoff will present a half-hour of violin classic pieces, accompanied by John Adams on piano. The performance is in the Dunster House Library, at the second floor of F entryway...