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President Clinton's east coast campaign.

The school district in Cleveland, Ohio is in trouble. The district has been taken over by the state...and now parents, educators and students are involved in a new experiment that many say will save the system. Others say the program will kill the public schools altogether. Poor families are eligible for school vouchers which can be used at private schools... even Catholic schools. This is the only voucher program in the country that includes Catholic schools, and voucher advocates are hoping it will prove their contention that public schools need competition if they're ever going to improve. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

of the gubernatorial races.

Robert talks to George Stephanopoulos about the reshuffling of President Clinton's cabinet for his second term. Defense Secretary William Perry, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary are expected to announce their resignations formally soon, and other cabinet members may follow suit. They'll also talk about the President's agenda for the next four years, and the significance of the split between male and female voters in their support for him.

in St. Petersburg last night. A grand jury decided against charging a white police officer over the shooting death of a black motorist last month that sparked widespread unrest.

backed away from its promised reform of Mexico's electoral system.

NPR's Kathy Schalch looks at sexual harassment in the workplace.

After elections in which the number of police on the streets and leadership in the drug war were debated, Congress and the president have the same issues to confront in 1997. NPR's Chitra Ragavan says other crime issues likely to occupy Washington next year are computer crime, militia movements, and the cost of the growing prison population.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on what appears to be a split vote on six Congressional House seats up for grabs this election. The state was seen as a bellwether for the conservative shift in 1994, when six seats flipped from Democratic to Republican. The margin was narrow in 1994, however, and this year's readjustment may indicate that 1994 wasn't such a strong rightward swing.

in Chicago.