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Take this other scene from the revolution. In the hardscrabble barrio of Pacoima near Los Angeles lies the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center. Of its 1,107 students, 931 are Hispanics who speak limited English; 95% are so poor they qualify for free breakfast and lunch. Four years ago, Vaughn was just another failing inner-city elementary school: test scores were among the lowest in the state, 24 of the 40-odd faculty members had quit in the previous two years, and the principal had resigned after anonymous death threats. Yvonne Chan, the new principal, was determined to turn things...
Granted charter status last fall, Vaughn Next Century, with a budget of $4.6 million, became a case study in how to take the money and run -- in the direction of greater efficiency and higher student achievement. Chan totally revamped spending. She put services like payroll and provisioning the cafeteria out for competitive bids; she reorganized special education. By year's end she had managed to run up a $1.2 million surplus, which she proceeded to plow back into the school. She added new computers, an after- school soccer program and, most important, more teachers, so that the number of students...
...Trisha Brown. With their sense of order and symmetry, Lemon's dances even resemble the plotless ballets of George Balanchine, in spirit if not vocabulary. When a friend in Denver challenged Lemon to create a piece with a black theme, Lemon demurred, but a chance meeting with Le Vaughn Robinson, a street-corner tap dancer, changed his mind. The result of their collaboration was Buck Dance, based on the syncopated clog dancing (the precursor of tap) that slaves performed to entertain their masters...
...with one minute left Mo 'Town' Vaughn, looking great in a kilt, is stuck in his own territory, and he passes to his baseball teammate Roger 'That' Clemens...
...tunes range about half instrumentals, halfvocals. This is just the type of collection thatRhino has come to excel in producing, withpredictable Eddie Fisher tracks thrown in withVaughn Monroe's deep baritoned "Riders In the Sky(A Cowboy Legend)," (complete with Vaughn'smournful "Yippie-eye-ays") and Peggy Lee's fakeSpanish-accented "Manana (Is Soon Enough...