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Critics are calling it a two-tier health system - one for the politically well connected, another for the hoi polloi. As Germany launched its mass-vaccination program against the H1N1 flu virus on Monday, the government found itself fending off accusations of favoritism because it was offering one vaccine believed to have fewer side effects to civil servants, politicians and soldiers, and another, potentially riskier vaccine to everyone else. The government had hoped that Germans would rush to health clinics to receive vaccinations against the rapidly spreading disease, but now rising anger over the different drugs may cause many people...
...Cambridge, white students consistently outperform minority students on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests. Last year, 62 percent of the district’s white seventh graders, compared to only 18 percent of black seventh graders, scored “proficient” or “advanced” in math. And while 79 percent of white seventh graders scored proficient or advanced in English language arts, only 44 percent of their black counterparts met those standards...
Critics of the current K-8 system contend that educational programs at each school vary in quality, which is in part due to an imbalanced distribution of students across the district...
Turkel said that the established K-8 system “reduces pressure to grow up too soon” and “allows for the continuity of relationships between students and faculty,” as well as “between families and school personnel...
...current controlled choice policy has not desegregated Cambridge elementary schools,” Grassi said. “We have schools that are racially and socio-economically imbalanced far beyond system-wide averages and approved variances within the policy...