educational bureaucrats, ideological indoctrinators and other beneficiaries of today’s system. What will happen when the growing number of homeschooling families withdraw their political support for the enormous taxes required to fund today’s $300 billion government system? To combat these threats, defenders of the status quo are fighting back with all the legal, legislative, and economic weapons at their disposal. The most insidious of these tactics is the systematic undermining and co-opting of the homeschooling movement by establishing government homeschooling programs. Government homeschooling programs set seductive lures before families by providing “free” resources, teachers, extracurricular activities, facilities, and even cash reimbursement. When enough families have voluntarily returned to the government system, it will be a relatively straightforward matter to

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, physicaleducation academics, who represent

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.

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