Twenty-five percent of all Rikers inmates read below a fifth-grade level, officials say.
At Townsend Harris High School at Queens College, where more than 6,000 students apply each year for fewer than 300 places in the ninth-grade class, officials said that at least 40 seats had been left empty after an unexpectedly high number of applicants who now attend private or parochial school turned down the admissions offer.
Special instructor-training courses are conducted in Britain and France, as well as in multinational schools in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where seminars are also held for higher grade officials.
When they signed up their son Marcus Jr., 9 and finishing third grade, officials helped them find a nicer house within walking distance of the school.
Tracking Penalties One season after the N.F.L. decided to grade officials as a crew instead of only individually, penalties have increased.
Today, Iran has known stockpiles of about 7,700 pounds of low-enriched uranium and about 90 pounds of uranium enriched to 19.75 percent, which is about halfway to bomb grade, officials said.
A 29-year-old English teacher at Canarsie High School was arrested Wednesday night and accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy in the ninth grade, officials said yesterday.
The careers of low-grade and middle-grade officials were largely secure; in the high ranks of the central administration, "reverses of fortune were to be feared," as Sinologist historian Jacques Gernet put it.
Lower-grade officials on the county and prefectural levels performed the necessary duties of administration such as collecting taxes, overseeing criminal cases, implementing efforts to fight famine and natural calamity, and occasionally supervising market affairs or public works.
It was the "upper gentry" of high-grade officials in the capital comprising mostly those who passed the palace exams who were in a position to influence and reform society.
