The school would have to get a new curriculum or a new staff, or be reopened as a charter school. It already has one of the nation's most comprehensive testing regimes and the legal structure to take action against failing schools. But the legislature's bewildering decision to bury for another year a bill that would have authorized charter schools could take away one option and some federal aid. Here, the test, as usual, is whether Congress matches its mandates with its dollars. But as of week's end, Frist had not nailed down an embassy to rent for the event.
Diplomats are invited only as a courtesy, committee officials say.
Thompson will play the bourbon-swilling Georgia senator Raymond Clark in a Voice of America radio adaptation of the 1964 movie Seven Days in May, about an attempted military coup. Edmond O'Brien received an Oscar nomination for that role in the movie. NOW THAT Thompson and Frist have recommended that prosecutor Terry Harris be named U.S. attorney for West Tennessee, they can turn to filling the vacant seat on the region's district court. Hardy Mays, a former chief of staff to Gov. Don Sundquist, is the favorite, but the senators may wait to see whether President Bush nominates U.S. Dist. Judge Julia Gibbons to the Sixth U.S. Circuit of Appeals.