... be blamed on the students" abilities or on behavior of any kind, but because these students had never been taught to read. Many of these students were simply transferred to alternative schools. This only compounded and inflamed the problem. Moving all of the underprivileged students together added to the number of students annually reported to have failed high school. Changes came in ... the form of required bilingual education at designated schools and affirmative action is practiced within city school districts. Much of the reason that these issues had not been addressed was because o...

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• Grade Level: High School

... be profitable, but they are doubtful that the funding from casinos will be distributed properly. The truth is, the tax money that they are making would go to funding public schools, adding new and improved traffic signals, helping out with government funding for college hopefuls who aren't financially stable enough to afford a college education. Our universities which as of now are ... that casinos are not beneficial to the economy, but in fact their good in many ways. They can drop unemployment rates in many of our communities. It can be an alternative to raising taxes. Casinos also wo...

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... health-care costs and lost productivity" (American Lung Association, "American"). Also, citizens must fund health care costs through tax. A wiser and more productive utilization of tax would be funding for schools. Despite the fact that the tobacco industry contributes a significant amount of tax, economic costs far exceed tobacco profits. Another area where cigarette smoking is costly is the working environment. Employers ... Health Service, the payments on this could be made much easier by making smokers pay for illnesses to be corrected which they inflicted on themselves due to smoki...

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