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A modest proposal by President Clinton for vague and voluntary national standards provoked strong opposition in Congress and elsewhere. A variety of efforts on the part of states to introduce some forms of curriculum guidelines and to reinforce them with statewide testing have stirred up strong reactions at the local level. Reinforcing this local response to setting standards has been the hostility toward government that has characterized the politics of the last two decades. Increasingly, elected officials have won office on a platform of being relentlessly anti-government. They see their primary job as an effort to protect local communities and individual citizens from the intrusion of government control Denver should consolidate its program for gifted middle-schoolers to stop children from leaving for private, charter and magnet schools, the program''s leader said Thursday. stand at the computer screen and write everything down." Students also can check out books with just their student identification number. The general public will be able to check out and reserve books with a bar code card, which can be obtained through the library''s Web page The new system also stays close to the vision the district has in sharing resources with other libraries, such as Bismarck Public Library, University of Mary and the Mandan public schools. The entities arel working out some bugs, but it won''t be long before the system will offer the same sharing resources as before.With more students getting even busier these days, the A group of 100 Toronto parents, concerned about the deteriorating quality of their children''s education, is launching an ad campaign to pressure the provincial government to put more money into schools. The parents - lawyers, broadcasters, academics, who represent Denver now offers its gifted-and-talented program at three schools - Baker, Place and Smiley - so students get special instruction near home. But Barbara Neyrinck, head of gifted-and-talented programs for Denver Public Schools, said the programs need to be consolidated to make them stronger, more of a priority and more appealing School administrators proposed creating an expanded special education program for high school students Wednesday in response to the rising costs of out-of-district placements. The goal is to keep special education students in the district, Superintendent Randy Bell said. The program, proposed during the School Board’s business meeting, would target high school students and involve both Hudson and Litchfield. The biggest area of the special education budget is out-of-district costs, said Leslie Derbyshire, special services director. In addition to tuition costs,
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