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...funding necessary for the government to ensure such students are always placed in appropriate, specialized learning environments—like private schools—entirely free of charge to parents. Parents who are tired of their children receiving inadequate educations have, understandably, enthusiastically supported Palin’s plan. Teachers unions and school districts, however, have challenged the initiative, asserting that it will support private education via a diversion of funds that could otherwise be employed to enhance public schools.We agree with the teachers and schools that Palin’s plan of federally subsidizing private education...
...mostly by Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng. Soetoro-Ng does appear on her brother's campaign; she and her husband are prized guests at dinner parties in Honolulu social circles. But she tends to keep the press at arms length, trying to lead the life of a teacher at one of Honolulu's private schools, La-Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls on the slopes of Diamond Head...
...Originally a Londoner, Cotterill was working as an English teacher in Australia when he first became interested in Laos - meeting refugees who had fled the communist takeover. One man in particular, a former Cabinet minister in the royalist government, later suggested a model for Dr. Siri. "They were more than cynical," Cotterill says of the émigrés. "They were really angry to be forced to leave what was then a good life. They'd saved money, had careers and sent their children to good schools. Then the communists moved in and suddenly this lifestyle was taken from them...
...country, locked in a fierce, friendly rivalry with Stacy Matseas of San Diego to see who can raise the most. Sue set her goal at $100,000 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her diagnosis. I didn't know her back then, when she was 32, a first-grade teacher with a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old and a disease that came out of nowhere. The doctors' advice was clear and aggressive: a lumpectomy, followed by six months of chemotherapy, then radiation, then five years of tamoxifen. Her ovaries came out because the tumors were estrogen-positive...
...discussions. Participants were asked to respond to questions about how Cambridge could further integrate GLBT awareness into education and city’s social and religious scenes. “We should have some piece of curriculum in the K-8 education that talks about GLBT issues, maybe more teacher training,” said one woman who has a daughter in high school with her partner. Many of the suggestions centered around a desire to improve the perception of homosexuals in the city and to increase awareness of gay rights. Several group members suggested incorporating GLBT-friendly books into...