Terrorism insurance for sale. (Update: education news from schools, businesses, research and government agencies).And districts are buying it. Under a federal law passed late last year, insurance companies are required to offer their policy holders coverage for terrorist attacks. New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Public Schools, the nation's largest district, and Chicago Public Schools Chicago Public Schools, commonly abbreviated as CPS by local residents and politicians, is a school district that controls over 600 public elementary and high schools in Chicago, Illinois. , the third largest, have rejected coverage because they're self-insured and say it would be too costly. Two other large districts, Miami-Dade in Florida and Clark County Clark County is the name of twelve counties in the United States of America:
Jumping on the bandwagon are the Steel Valley School District outside of Pittsburgh and the Nampa School District in Idaho. "A threat or a target? No, I can't think of anything here," says Janice Glunk, superintendent of the 2,300-student Pennsylvania district. "But you never know."--LD |
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