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PS/MS 279, a school in the Bronx, is on New York City's list of schools "in need of improvement." Only 19% of its students meet state standards in reading. So when Kenia Olivero heard that President Bush had signed an education law that promises students the right to transfer from failing schools, she began to investigate what she could do for her son Kendrick, who was behind in his reading skills. She discovered that fewer than one-third of the students who requested transfers from low-scoring New York City schools actually got them last year. The good schools...
...entirely agree on the means or the timetable," he said. Schröder chimed in: "There are differences." France and Germany have offered to help train Iraqi police at facilities outside Iraq, but both want power handed over quickly to the Iraqis; Blair agrees with the U.S. that the transfer can't be rushed. And he backs the U.S.-drafted resolution now before the Security Council that calls on countries to send financial and military aid to Iraq, but leaves the U.S. in charge. And it's not only governments that are still divided. A new Time/cnn poll found that...
...that has become Germany's battered twin not only in the Iraq debate, but in many other controversies in Europe as well. Chirac has muted his position somewhat on Iraq, and no one is talking about a French veto this time. In Berlin, the French President spoke of a transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi people "within a few months"; a mere week before, his excitable Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, had demanded it "within a month." But that doesn't mean France is ready to fold, and with the German population as critical of U.S. actions in Iraq...
Bennett told the audience he had met with University President Lawrence H. Summers earlier in the day and proposed that Harvard transfer some of its professors to Baghdad to rebuild Iraq’s educational system...
...charge of any UN-authorized military force in Iraq. Such cases as Kosovo, East Timor and Afghanistan have recently established the precedent for the nation or group of nations committing most of the troops to a UN-authorized peace-enforcement mission retains command. The question of how quickly to transfer sovereign authority to Iraqis has been a point of contention, with the French initially insisting that a transitional government be seated within a month, while Secretary of State Powell dismissed the suggestion as wildly unrealistic. But even on that score, a compromise appears to be within reach: The French...