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...about or even antagonistic toward politics. Clinton may have the presidential race all sewn up (as many of us would like to believe), but it is still important to follow the race for the issues, foremost among which for students is education. Questions about student loan repayment plans and tuition tax deductions will affect our lives directly, so it's worth finding out all you can and supporting the candidate whose views you share...
...Tuition at my private high school ran about $10,000 per year and gave us classes of between 12 and 15 people; tuition at Harvard is twice that, and yet we're given sections with one-third to two-thirds more students. It makes one wonder where the money goes...
Harvard's labor practices are especially important because the University is the fourth largest employer in Massachusetts and the largest employer in Cambridge. And while we appreciate the University's attempts to control costs in an era of exponentially exploding tuition prices, we wonder about the ramifications of current trends in the job market. As the power and influence of unions wanes in the face of competition with cheap labor at home and abroad, many workers are forced to accept increasingly less generous contracts. As in the new Local 254 contract, older workers are offered more attractive early retirement plans...
...students this year, to 413, thanks to the most closely watched educational experiment in the country. This month Cleveland becomes the first city in the nation to allow children from poor homes to attend private schools, including religious schools, using government money to cover most or all of the tuition. State-financed school-choice vouchers provide up to $2,250 a year to parents of 2,000 low-income children in kindergarten through third grade. The vouchers can be used to send the children either to a nonsectarian private school of the parents' choice or to a parochial school like...
...parents of parochial-school children are more involved in the education of their children. One hope behind the Cleveland voucher program, says Bert Holt, who administers it, is that it will draw more parents into an active relationship. "Parents think, 'I'm going to be signing off this tuition payment, which is going to educate my child. I have a stake in this.' For many of these parents, this is the first time they've ever endorsed a check...