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Education
Clinton Plan Would Target Poor Schools
While President Clinton's new proposal to help high-poverty schools played only a minor part in his first town meeting on race last week, it offered a revealing preview of his administration's 1998 agenda for poor urban and rural districts.
Federal
Title I Quirks Pit Well-to-do, Poor Schools
The federal program intended to counteract poverty's effects on student performance is hard at work here in the wealthiest county in America, just down the road from the Fidelity Investments branch office.
Education Funding
Clinton Budget Targets Reform, Poor Schools
President Clinton asked Congress last week to increase federal funding for high-poverty schools, professional development, college aid, and his own education-reform programs as he issued a budget request for fiscal 1997 that is similar to his earlier spending plans.
Education
Funds Found Parceled Evenly Among Rich, Poor N.Y.C. Schools
The first-ever study of how New York City's 32 community school districts and their schools spend their money has disproved the widely held notion in the city that districts and schools serving large numbers of low-income students get less public money than ones with more affluent enrollments.
Education
Rich Schools, Poor Schools
In the summer of 1968, Demetrio Rodriguez and several other Mexican-Americans living in Edgewood, Tex., filed a class action in a federal district court on behalf of all Texas children attending schools in poor district . Their argument: Such districts cannot offer the same high-quality education that wealthier district provide because they have much less money to pend.
Education
Sanctions for Academically Poor Schools Urged
Declare Them 'Bankrupt,' Governors Told
Lincoln, Neb--School systems that do not meet high academic standards should be forced to declare "academic bankruptcy," Constantine Curris, president of the University of Northern Iowa, suggested to Midwestern governors meeting here this month.
