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ROTC defenders say innocent students are unfairly caught in the crossfire between the Department of Defense and groups lobbying for gay rights. Well-intentioned students often rely on ROTC scholarships--which pay full tuition--to fund their college educations...
While Cambridge Rindge and Latin does operate a program under which tuition-paying students from outside districts can attend classes, Peterkin estimated that 10 to 15 per cent of the high school's current students are actually Boston residents sneaking into the system from across the river...
...this year, indications are that Harvard is giving more than it ever has. Granted, some dorms badly need renovation, and many sectors of the Harvard bureacracy have not yet gotten the student-friendly idea. And, of course, tuition is higher than ever. But to many students, little things mean...
...deal between Tommy Thompson, the conservative Republican Governor, and Polly Williams, a black-separatist Democratic state representative from Milwaukee. The result was a virtually unprecedented school-voucher plan: the state approved legislation that would allow a group of inner-city Milwaukee students to attend private schools with $2,500 tuition grants. Bitterly opposed by the N.A.A.C.P. and teachers' unions, the program was delayed for a year and whittled down in size. "What about the common school?" Williams asks in response to her critics. "How come nobody talked about destroying the system when the whites left? Now they want to block...
Polly Williams has inspired free-market visionaries elsewhere in the country. A proposal to provide tuition vouchers for 5,000 students in troubled New York schools was defeated this summer by the State Board of Regents by a surprisingly narrow margin. And a private corporation, the Golden Rule Insurance Co., has pledged to donate $1.2 million over the next three years to help 748 inner-city students in Indianapolis attend private schools...