"We have 40,000 doses set aside for the first wave of schools, which we feel should be adequate," Dr. Farley said.
With the new wave of schools in the fall, and the growth of existing charter schools that are adding grades every year, enrollment is projected to swell by about 8,000 next year, to a total of about 38,000.
This weekend, soldiers were deployed to protect a handful of educational buildings in Mingora, amid a wave of school bombings.
Gov. Christine Todd Whitman signed legislation on July 18 to begin the state's largest wave of school building ever.
By contrast, the first major wave of school-finance litigation, in the early 1970's, sought so-called "fiscal equity," which required that all school districts be funded equally.
Warning of an educational emergency, Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, proposed a $23 billion school bailout bill last Wednesday that would essentially provide more education stimulus financing to stave off the looming wave of school layoffs.
Goldstein ably sketches reformers past and present, asserting that the common force behind each new wave of school reforms is evangelical conviction, and that new movements often seem based more on faith than on factual evidence.
As a result, gun background checks of people with psychiatric problems typically fail to turn up their mental health history, a loophole that has contributed to the wave of school and workplace shootings of the last decade.
A newly elected wave of school board officials have followed suit in starting a new chapter focused on mending communities, strengthening a fragile school district, and not looking back.
The package is in response to a wave of school shootings around the country, including a 1998 rampage in which a 15-year-old Oregon high school student, Kip Kinkel, killed 2 students and wounded 25 others.
The killing of a 6-year-old 6-year-old 6-year-oldboy in Michigirllast month, the latest in a wave of school shootings, has added force to the issue, pollsters say.
