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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alex Mt who wrote (51255)	10/24/2000 2:36:37 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Never mind what they say prematurely say about Gore. Latin America doesn't really know Bush yet. Does it? They may remember his dad as the one who was in charge of America's still-continuing-to-fail drug interdiction program under Reagan, and then the senior Bush's own convoluted interdiction programs once out of Reagan's wing. How can anyone posting on this thread expect George W to behave differently? If you think that, you might as well write in Pat Robinson for president. Now, there's an idea--LOL!

To: Alex Mt who wrote (51255)	10/29/2000 1:53:10 AM
From: Alex Mt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

NY POST The Clinton rducation standard: THOSE MAGICAL VANISHING STANDARDS Saturday,October 28,2000 Pop quiz: When are "standards" in education not really standards at all? Answer: When school officials can drop them any time they fear a high failure rate. Which is more often than you might think. This week, they gutted them in San Francisco. Under a 1997 plan, students there would have needed more non-elective credits to graduate. But when the Board of Education realized that 30 percent of the kids couldn't make the grade, it ditched the requirement. It's a classic move. They try to make you think that higher standards mean better schools - and a diploma that's finally worth the paper it's printed on. Then, while no one's looking, they relax the standards. Not to worry; only the kids get cheated. Hillary and Bill Clinton pulled a similar stunt in Arkansas, back when he was governor and she was in charge of education reform. They promised a tough new test for teachers. But teachers moaned, so the Clintons dropped the score needed to pass. Voila. Everyone was happy. (Except, of course, the kids who would continue to be taught by incompetents.) What does this have to do with New York? It's a warning sign - to be on the lookout for this kind of scam. Indeed, officials here have already resorted to "standards" trickery. In 1996, they boasted about plans to raise the bar - by requiring all students to pass Regents tests to graduate; previously, kids could get diplomas without taking the tests. But a funny thing happened on the way to higher standards: The tests were rewritten so that only complete illiterates would fail. At the same time, a study by the Manhattan Institute found that only 16 percent of city high-school students who took Regents exams would qualify for a diploma under the new requirements.