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...Vallas became the first chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools in 1995 and promoted policies such as charter schools and school vouchers, which he continued to press in school districts across the...
...working for the Manhattan district attorney....
...College of Fashion, V&A East and a UK outpost for the US’s Smithsonian Institution....
...It says that she has lived in a real place, Kansas City....
...“The Democrats are an ‘upstairs-downstairs’ party with a large missing gap in the middle,” says Michael Lind, a visiting fellow at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs in Austin, Texas....
...Ms Davids pulled off a defeat of four-term incumbent Kevin Yoder in Kansas’ third congressional district, which primarily encompasses the western suburbs of Kansas City, and is considered more moderate than...
...A high school dropout who went on to take a BA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a PhD from Syracuse University, Ms Daly was seen as the most likely candidate to take over from Mr Williams....
...Johnson, who leads a near-70-year-old civil rights group called the Newtown Florist Club, was intervening at public meetings when she was just 12, back in the 1960s....
...And in the FT, check out another part of our ongoing millennial series, this one by my US colleague Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, looking at how young Americans are shunning New York and other high-priced cities...
...Harry Truman’s (Independence, Missouri, 1957) and Dwight D Eisenhower’s (Abilene, Kansas, 1962) were stripped, modern reinterpretations of the classical, buildings of solid stone with sombre porticos, their...
...Kansas City and St Louis in Missouri, Houston and Charleston in South Carolina....
...I’m doing public meetings in every single borough multiple times.”...
...Even now, the schools in Kansas City, Missouri, are effectively segregated, with almost all white children at private schools. Just nine per cent of pupils in the state system are white....
...I went to what are called “public schools” in America, which means they are owned and operated by local governments – in my case, the Shawnee Mission School District, Johnson County, Kansas....
...Third, most of this information in most states is already legally public information. It just sits in boxes in the basement of city hall or state government buildings....
...Linda Schlesener, a white woman in her sixties who was attending a rally for Mr Obama in Kansas City last week, says she was “very disappointed” by Mr Clinton’s remarks....
...Jo Johnson is the FT’s bureau chief in Delhi....
...Jo Johnson is the FT’s South Asia correspondent....
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