The political fight for California classrooms

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California plans to offer educational vouchers or public scholarships to allow parents to choose a state-run school or a private school where the voucher would cover approximately half the $2,600 or 1,430 pounds sterling fees. Los Angeles schools are over-full and use a year-round timetable with pupils having holidays at different times to accommodate everyone. Private schools have few regulations. The Choice-in-Education League have organised signatures to pass laws with a public vote without legislature in November 1992. The Committee to Educate Against Vouchers includes many teachers who fear public schools would lose funding and doubt the values of some private schools run by extreme cults, religious or political organisations.

Finance, Social policy, Education, California, Educational vouchers, Private schools

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Big Brother on Russia's border

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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is taking an increasingly dictatorial stance. He has announced the revival of the Soviet practice of unpaid compulsory weekend labour, for example, and has warned collective farmers that their activities will be closely monitored. His attitudes have led to strained relations with Russia, where some people welcome the possibility that part of the Soviet empire may be rebuilt and others are concerned about the dangers of creating close links with a backward country with serious economic difficulties. There is also growing concern in the west about Belarus.

Political activity, Column, Political aspects, Belarus, Lukashenko, Alexander

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Tsar's family snub 'insulting' burial

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Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and her relatives, members of Russia's former Imperial family, have expressed strong opposition to the reburial of Nicholas II, Russia's last tsar. They are objecting to the fact that he will be buried in a side chapel of the St Peter and St Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg, Russia, rather than in the main body of the building. The ruling synod of the Orthodox Church has also distanced itself from the reburial for internal political reasons.

Family, Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia

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