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Public schools can succeed if they have adequate community involvement, funding and teaching standards. If you have doubts, talk to one of your classmates from Boston Latin. When the students and parents who are most concerned about education withdraw from public schools using vouchers, these institutions will decline further. Students that remain will suffer. These students-at-risk are ignored at society's peril...
Public schools can succeed if they have adequate community involvement, funding and teaching standards. If you have doubts, talk to one of your classmates from Boston Latin. When the students and parents who are most concerned about education withdraw from public schools using vouchers, these institutions will decline further. Students that remain will suffer. These students-at-risk are ignored at society's peril...
...Campbell (R-Calif.) last week invoked a clause in the War Powers Act of 1973 that forced full House votes Wednesday on two resolutions, one declaring war on Yugoslavia and the other requiring President Clinton to withdraw U.S. troops within 30 days. Neither had a chance, but to simply vote no on both would mean an implicit endorsement of Clinton's way. Fractured as the party is over Kosovo, no GOPer was in the mood for that. "This was a symbolic vote so that Republicans could assert their authority in the Kosovo conflict," he says. "But they'd still rather...
However, the U.N. proposal was officially turned down on April 16. Yugoslav diplomats said that the nation would not withdraw its troops until the bombing had ceased, in essence asking NATO to make the first move. In addition, Yugoslavia would allow only civilian observers, not military forces, into Kosovo. These conditions are unacceptable. The expulsion of the Albanians demonstrates that Milosevic cannot be relied on to obey international human rights conventions, so his compliance with international agreements may be unsteady. If the bombing stopped first, Yugoslavia could easily delay the withdrawal of troops long enough to continue its ethnic cleansing...
...letter sent to the Faculty including the newly consolidated document, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 emphasized that, unlike a requirement to withdraw, a forced leave of absence is not meant as a punishment...