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...original version of this article suggested that the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy is the only Catholic college-prep school in Detroit. That was based on a definition of college prep as a place where 75% or more of students take college-prep courses and go on to college. In fact Detroit Cristo Rey, a Catholic high school launched last year, aims to be a college-prep school as well, though it has yet to graduate a class...
...most liberal and far-reaching version, passed by two House committees, would tie the rates the public plan pays health-care providers to what Medicare reimburses. Given that Medicare reimbursement rates can be 30% lower than those paid by private insurers, such a system could be a powerful one at holding down costs and could save the Federal Government $110 billion over 10 years, according to the most recent estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). (The Federal Government's costs here would primarily be the subsidies it gives low- and middle-income people to help pay their premiums...
What she can probably pass is a different version, approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, that would establish a public option that operates more like a traditional insurance company, with the Health and Human Services Secretary negotiating with health-care providers to determine how much it would reimburse them. That wouldn't raise as many objections from health-care providers and insurers, but it wouldn't save all that much money either. The CBO estimates it would trim federal spending by about $25 billion over 10 years...
...first weekend after Halloween, and with the spine-numbing pleasure of Paranormal Activity in many moviegoers' minds, The Fourth Kind benefitted from a beguilingly creepy ad campaign, giving glimpses of alien possession. Audiences didn't feel the same urgency, seven weeks before Christmas, to see the 467th version of A Christmas Carol, whose trailer emphasized hectic, hurtful chase scenes over the Scroogean character comedy and hearth-and-heart sentiment. As for Precious, $100,000 a screen is a feat accomplished only twice before (by Dreamgirls and Brokeback Mountain), but the movie had enormous promotion from executive producer Oprah Winfrey...
...cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their child's education. Philadelphia has invested heavily in this year's launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents. Boston is reviving its Parent University following an earlier version's demise due to budget cuts. And Miami's Parent Academy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help Your Child Succeed in Math to Teaching Behavior Skills...