Martin Michaels More than 300 students representing 25 different Chicago public schools staged a walkout Wednesday in opposition to standardized testing. The demonstration occurred during a scheduled testing day when thousands of students across Illinois are required to take standardized exams. Six busloads of students representing the Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools (CSOSOS), a burgeoning […]
Martin Michaels More than 300 students representing 25 different Chicago public schools staged a walkout Wednesday in opposition to standardized testing. The demonstration occurred during a scheduled testing day when thousands of students across Illinois are required to take standardized exams. Six busloads of students representing the Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools (CSOSOS), a burgeoning […]
In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Brandon Coats works on his computer at his home in Denver. Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient, was fired from his job in 2010 as a telephone operator at Dish Network after testing positive for marijuana. The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday, April 25, 2013, upheld the […]
In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Brandon Coats works on his computer at his home in Denver. Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient, was fired from his job in 2010 as a telephone operator at Dish Network after testing positive for marijuana. The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday, April 25, 2013, upheld the […]
In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that overwhelmingly passed a test vote in the Senate Monday, April 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) Internet […]
In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that overwhelmingly passed a test vote in the Senate Monday, April 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) Internet […]
Pedestrians and cars traverse New York’s Times Square, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects had planned to blow up their remaining explosives in New York’s Times Square, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment […]
Pedestrians and cars traverse New York’s Times Square, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects had planned to blow up their remaining explosives in New York’s Times Square, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment […]
In this July 27, 2011 file photo, the sun shines over a Range Resources well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling into the Marcellus Shale layer deep underground and “fracking” the area to release natural gas. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) A truck traveling from a hydraulic fracturing site set off […]
In this July 27, 2011 file photo, the sun shines over a Range Resources well site in Washington, Pa. The company is one of many drilling into the Marcellus Shale layer deep underground and “fracking” the area to release natural gas. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File) A truck traveling from a hydraulic fracturing site set off […]
A closed office at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Top U.S. lawmakers are reportedly discussing behind closed doors the possibility of exempting congressional staffers and aides from provisions of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are once again causing a […]
A closed office at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Top U.S. lawmakers are reportedly discussing behind closed doors the possibility of exempting congressional staffers and aides from provisions of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are once again causing a […]
Majority Leader Eric Cantor from Virginia, left, winks as he talks on the phone while walking to the floor of the House on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 in Washington. Leglslation supported by the Majority Leader was pulled from the House floor Wednesday after facing opposition from conservative activists. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) On Wednesday, […]
Majority Leader Eric Cantor from Virginia, left, winks as he talks on the phone while walking to the floor of the House on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 in Washington. Leglslation supported by the Majority Leader was pulled from the House floor Wednesday after facing opposition from conservative activists. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) On Wednesday, […]
