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McCain Opposes New GI Bill. Feels Troops Should Be Trapped in the Military

Bill Lenner — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:41:00 GMT

Excerpt Reuters report at Yahoo News "McCain and Obama battle over military service";McCain said he opposed the legislation because he wanted to make sure the Defense Department retains some people for a career in the military.... The

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Give me the lesson without the spin. New Jersey Student Finds Significant Amounts of Right Wing Bias in School Text Book

Bill Lenner — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:56:00 GMT

Excerpt LA Times article "Give me the lesson without the spin": In one of my classes, we use the 10th edition of "American Government" by James Q. Wilson, a well-known conservative academic, and John J. DiIulio, a political

Bob Herbert: Secondary Education in the US Gets an "F"

Bill Lenner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:28:00 GMT

Bob Herbert makes good point in his column about how American education is failing our children after 4th grade in Clueless in America But I'd like to ask if most Americans really care? Most of the young people whose parents are affluent d

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Anti-Evolution Education Bill Passes Florida Senate

Bill Lenner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Say g'bye to quality education Floridians. Thank your local Republican state senator, folks.See Orlando Sentinal -- School Zone blog : The anti-evolution (or "academic freedom") bill passes in the Senate Excerpt: The Senat

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White House Aide Resigns Because of Plagiarism. Newspaper didn't pay for columns. Was Goeglein paid for columns by US taxpayer? Someone grab Waxman and have him investigate this!

Bill Lenner — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Real snatch and grab writing has been done by one of the Bush administration's high level aides. Timothy S. Goeglin, who joined the president's campaign in 2000 at the behest of (you guessed it) Karl Rove and worked under him in

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Roswell, New Mexico, School Resources Officer Gets Student Deported Over Driving Incident

Bill Lenner — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:09:00 GMT

The school official has subsequently been barred from visiting any campuses, but wow.Excerpt Albequer

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Talk about Deception. Christian Groups Use Abstinence and Anti-Drug Programs to Get Captive Audiences For Proselytizing at School

Bill Lenner — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:25:00 GMT

I discovered this report at Awakening 's blog: A CHRISTMAS STORY....Scroll down to link titled "Because God Said: Youth Ministry Uses Deception to Gain Access to Public Schools" (Neither the blog or the original source

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MRSA Killed New York Student

Bill Lenner — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:28:00 GMT

This is getting sad and sick. Excerpt Medical News Today "MRSA Confirmed In Dead New York School Student":Health officials from New York city confirmed yesterday that a seventh grade male student who died on the 14th of October had MRSA, a

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Planner of Columbine III Was Home Schooled

Bill Lenner — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:22:00 GMT

Some people in the US think that all problems can be solved for kids with home schooling.I've known home-schooleds kids whose major subject was "home ec." until the county laid some court orders on the parents and they had to go back to

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Student Arrested Over Delaware State Shootings

Bill Lenner — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:19:00 GMT

Short excerpt AP report at Washington Post "18-Year-Old Charged in Campus Shooting ": The shootings followed a fight Tuesday between Braden and one of the victims in a university parking lot, according to an affidavit by Lt. Donald Baynard

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Two Shot at Delaware State (Update 2 persons of interest sought. Police Interviewing 1 Male)

Bill Lenner — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:38:00 GMT

Two students have been shot at the Dover campus of Delaware State University. A female has "potentially life threatening injuries", while a male is in stable condition.Campus is in lockdown while authorities hunt for a single male gun

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Separate and Unequal. Tuscaloosa Alabama Resegregates Schools

Bill Lenner — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:08:00 GMT

See NY Times: Alabama Plan Brings Out Cry of Resegregation.

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Texas: Schools Suspend Officer Over 'Ghetto Handbook'

Bill Lenner — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:41:00 GMT

Exerpt AP report at the New York Times (same tittle as above):The Houston Independent School District suspended a police officer as it investigated his distribution of a “Ghetto Handbook” and the three-month lapse before top officials we

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Schools Resegregating as Communities Seek to Diversify on Income Rather Than Race

Bill Lenner — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:12:00 GMT

Diversification on income instead of race is leading to resegregation in many cases according to NY Times' report "School Diversity Based on Income Segregates Some ".

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There Goes Brown V Board of Education. Supreme Court Shoots Down Race Use for Diversity.

Bill Lenner — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:30:00 GMT

WP: "Court Limits Use of Race to Achieve Diversity in Schools "Of course, the neocon press and those bloggers who want to become part of the same will never say this.There'll be dancing in the streets in racist redneck junct

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Evidence Shows Cho (VA Tech Shooter) Bought Guns Specifically for Rampage

Bill Lenner — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:45:00 GMT

Excerpt ABC report : "[Cho Seung-hui] bought his first gun, a 9 mm handgun, on March 13 and his second weapon, a 22 mm handgun, within the last week, law enforcement officials tell ABCNEWS.com."... Under Virginia law, state residents can on

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Picture Sources for VA Tech shootings (update)

Bill Lenner — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:37:00 GMT

Yahoo has 49 pictures as of this update linked to this report and more might be coming. (Click on the picture with the report to get to the Yahoo slideshow

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32 Dead in Virginia Tech Shooting

Bill Lenner — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:26:00 GMT

The Washington Post has some news on this crisis . (This report keeps changing so you should be able to get the latest from a semi-local quality staff, but we hope the numbers won't go up any higher.)

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Attorney Firings Tied to Republican Efforts in Vote Suppression

Bill Lenner — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:41:00 GMT

Excerpt McClatchy report at Real Cities, Washington DC "New U.S. attorneys seem to have partisan records": Under President Bush, the Justice Department has backed laws that narrow minority voting rights and pressed U.S. attorneys to inves

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Student Free Speech and Ability to Bring RICO against Government Agents Before the High Court

Bill Lenner — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:45:00 GMT

Samuel Alito, the champion of free speech in school? Why? The case of a high school student (at the time) who exhibited a 14' banner saying "Bongs for Jesus" has reached the Supreme Court, along with a case in which a rancher

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