Word: tuition
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...impersonal and too general to accomodate much original thought. We soon learn to take the midterm, write on one of two "suggested paper topics," take the final, and get a B-plus. Go directly to concentration jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $20,000 tuition refund...
...president of the school since 1974, Silber has alienated faculty, staff and students alike in what amounted to a massive seizure of power. With the help of an unprecedented tuition hike, Silber quadrupled the size of university administration and funded secret-police-like surveillance of student protests and faculty activities. Under his leadership, B.U. was cited in court for gender discrimination in employment and for violating students' First Amendment rights...
...daughter, 12, and a son, 9. The Millberns' combined military pay will be $9,600 a month, less than half what Dr. Millbern had been earning. That might not be sufficient to meet monthly mortgage payments of nearly $6,000 on their newly remodeled home, plus private-school tuition for the children and other expenses. But the interest rate on their first mortgage has been reduced to 6%, while Union Bank, which holds a second mortgage, will allow him to skip payments while he is on active duty...
...Patricia Mull's Los Angeles apartment is a World Book encyclopedia. The shiny volumes cost $1,200, an almost inconceivable amount carved out of her household budget. Her daughter Lorena is a junior high school honors graduate who wants to go to law school, and the encyclopedia, like the tuition for private schooling, was a high priority, a costly symbol of firm intent...
...demand better education. The vouchers would, in theory, provide roughly the same amount of money as it now costs to educate each student in the public schools; in some over-bureaucratized systems like New York City's, that is more than $5,500 a year, higher than the tuition at some private schools. Government would still have a role: private schools, as they do today, would have to abide by state certification standards and could not racially discriminate. Chubb and Moe also suggest that there could be extra financial incentives to encourage schools to accept problem students. Thus even potential...