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Supporters of African-centered education in Kansas City think the time is finally right to extend the program all the way through high school. A task force of parents and educators is pushing to open a district-sponsored African-centered charter school or campus for grades six through 12 by the 2007-08 school year, if not sooner. The school would extend the district’s African-centered education (ACE) program, which now consists of two elementary schools and a middle school. The effort is drawing national interest. “People want to see a test,” said Wade Nobles, a San Francisco State University social psychologist. “Kansas City is...

Sunday, February 01, 2004, 08:14 P.M. Pacific Fighting words from Dean stir faithful hereBy David PostmanSeattle Times chief political reporter Struggling presidential candidate Howard Dean used a speech to a yelling, stomping, liberal Seattle crowd yesterday to paint fellow-Democrat John Kerry and President Bush as twin tools of special interests. Dean railed against Kerry, the Massachusetts senator who has supplanted Dean as the front-runner in the Democratic race, and said news yesterday that Kerry took more lobbyist money than any other member of the Senate made him so mad he was sputtering. "This is the challenge for the Democratic Party:...