Word: unclear
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...link between self-governance and student performance is clear at some schools, unclear at others. Yet this spotty record is unlikely to mar school- based management's bright future. In May Citibank gave $2.4 million to help nine Washington, D.C., schools get their plans under way. Dade County has taken the notion a step further, asking principals and teachers to submit ideas for creating 49 new schools from the ground up. Seven are now in the planning-and-building stage. More innovations are sure to come. School districts may find that giving teachers and parents the right to make decisions...
...still unclear how the Court will rule on the new statute, which was brought before it earlier this month. Justice Harry Blackmun, at least, has indicated that the new wording might change his vote, which would tip the five to four decision the other...
...unclear whether financial aid practices are still a major part of the probe, since the Justice Department is--temporarily, at least--focusing its investigation on tuition setting...
None of these developments are a panacea for Africa. Lip service to reform notwithstanding, it remains unclear just how committed these well-entrenched regimes really are to giving up the total control they have enjoyed. The need for foreign aid and the fear of social unrest drove President Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's leader for 25 years, to embrace the idea of pluralism, but he has yet to schedule a promised popular referendum. In the case of Mobutu and Houphouet-Boigny, their utterances have contained a hint of "Apres moi, le deluge." These old-timers may be calculating that they...
Though no official counts of delegate support have yet been released, analysts estimate that the convention will be a close race between Bellotti and Murphy. It is still unclear whether or not Silber will get support from 15 percent of the delegates, which he needs in order to continue the race...