In considering a motion to approve a settlement and certify a class, Chancellor Strine denied the motion.
"And highlighting one small group [there were 24 students in the first UNC class of chancellor's scholars last summer] out of an entering class of 4000 is not the way we normally welcome our students".
There are more remedial math and English classes at the school than college-level classes, the chancellor said.
B1 OBITUARIES C23 EDUCATION New School Year Begins New York City's 1.1 million public school students returned to classes as the chancellor said the board had complied with a court order requiring it to hire certified teachers for the worst elementary schools.
"When we look at the fall semester that just ended, we saw significant drops in enrollment in English acquisition classes," said Steven R. Helfgot, vice chancellor for student and community affairs at Maricopa Community Colleges.
The prime minister is chairing a cabinet committee which is looking at development proposals east of London, along the Thames estuary (unlike the other target areas, this has both a large number of derelict sites, and few noisy middle-class locals).Secondly, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, wants to cool Britain's overheated housing market.
It's the whole Ruritanian occasion: the lords and ladies in robes and ermine; the elected representatives herded at the back like so many second-class citizens; the lord chancellor's bow before the throne; the glittering crown on the Queen's head; even the speech itself, hand-quilled on goatskin.
It has already regained some support by demanding tax cuts aimed at the middle class in defiance of the chancellor.
With reports showing a shrinking German middle class, a raise for the chancellor, who currently receives about $390,000 a year in total compensation, would not seem like a particularly winning campaign issue.
He said only that he wanted to hear no more "rubbish" about class war: he and his chancellor were believers in equal opportunity who will have no truck with "old-fashioned egalitarianism that levels down".
Mr. Klein, looking confused, smiled as he turned to Mr. Espinal to ask: "Care to clue me in here?" Upstairs, in a seventh-grade class for gifted students, the chancellor seemed far more at ease, peppering the students with questions about their summer and their plans for the future.
