By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush’s education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.
In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert (…)
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Buying of News by Bush’s Aides Is Ruled Illegal
1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Battle Of The Two Theories
26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsSchool’s evolution teaching goes on trial today
by Greg Lloyd Smith
HARRISBURG, PA — (OfficialWire) — 09/26/05 — A group of parents in the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), is seeking to overturn a decision by the local school board who have insisted that so-called Intelligent Design-the theory that complex organisms have been designed (presumably by God) rather than having evolved in response to natural selection-must be (…) -
Protest Over Metal Detectors Gains Legs as Students Walk Out
24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy FERNANDA SANTOS
The first rumors started swirling last spring, in hushed talks in the classroom, amid hallway banter, in lunchtime chats at pizza parlors along Jerome Avenue. Metal detectors were coming to DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
By the time the summer school term began, students were noticing the newly installed surveillance cameras along DeWitt Clinton’s stairwells and the shell of a metal detector perched beyond a side door. "The school is on lockdown," one student (…) -
More Ties Between David Boren and CIA Exposed — It’s Not Just George Tenet
23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com The annual yearbook of the University of Oklahoma, located in Norman, is called Sooner. OU’s president is former U.S. Senator David Boren. The 2003 volume of Sooner devotes two pages to Ken Levit, currenty president of the OU campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sooner reports that Levit left his hometown of Tulsa in 1998 to work for CIA director George Tenet. In 2000 he returned to Tulsa, and was recruited by Boren for the OU (…)
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WHICH GOD ARE YOU UNDER?
15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
14 commentsUNDER WHICH GOD?
By Peter Fredson
September 15, 2005
Today a federal judge declared that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with the inclusion of the words “Under God” in public schools is unconstitutional, a decision that could lead to a heated round of Supreme Court arguments and endless acrimonious debate among True Believers and non-Christian believers or “others.”
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton stated that the reference in the pledge to “One Nation Under God” violates the (…) -
QUEEN OF HEARTS : The Nnabagereka Charms all with visit to Boston school
5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Daniel Patrick Welch
SALEM, U.S.A. Four-year old Brandon Marrero awoke early and opened his eyes wide. “Is today Queen’s Day?” he asked his mom?
The preschooler at the Greenhouse School in Salem, Massachusetts (north of Boston) had been excited for weeks, and the day had finally arrived. He and his schoolmates at the small alternative school on Boston’s north shore were going to see a real, live Queen. The Nnabagereka, Her Highness the Queen of Buganda, was to visit the school. (…) -
NYU students gain big-labor support in protest
3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by Catherine Tymkiw
New York University graduate students got help from national organized labor at a protest today over their working conditions.
The graduate students, who are members of the United Auto Workers union, say they want a new contract to replace the one that expires today. They made the point with a protest that attracted more than 1,100 people, including students, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, actress Morgan Fairchild and politicians. The university says the union lost (…) -
Connecticut challenges No Child Left Behind
25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
HARTFORD, Conn. - The state of Connecticut filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging President Bush’s No Child Left Behind school reform law, arguing it is illegal because it requires expensive testing and programs it doesn’t pay for.
The lawsuit, which officials said was the first of its kind to be brought by a state government, asks a federal judge to declare that the federal government cannot require state and local money be used to meet federal testing goals.
“The goals of the No (…) -
What our kids don’t know can hurt us: Why it matters to know about Africa and the rest of the world
25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy Daniel Patrick Welch
It is well known that American kids traditionally score well below their foreign counterparts in geographic knowledge, and Africa seems to be perennially at the bottom of what they know. The reasons for this shameful lack of interest or insight are many and varied, especially given the US’ current position in the world, but a few problem areas are easy to explain.
It is unlikely in any society, for example, that kids would outpace their teachers, parents, (…) -
Historic Med School Graduation in Cuba
23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentHavana, Aug 23 (AIN) Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales
said the first graduation of the Latin American Medical School
in Havana will be engraved in history.
The leader of the Movement for Socialism congratulated the Cuban
government for the project, which celebrated its first
graduating class of 1,610 last Saturday. He also praised the
Venezuelan government for announcing that it would create a
second such medical school and like the Cuban model, provide (…)