Instruction Of Students Learning English Looks Bleak

In this April 3, 2013 photo, Duna Lopez, 8, center, whispers into the ear of classmate Mathew Botros, 9, right, during an English class at the Coral Way K-8 Center, in Miami, the nation’s oldest bilingual school. At left is teacher Julia Puentes. Students who speak a language other than English at home are one […]

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

Duna Lopez started school in Miami last fall not knowing a single word of English. The 8-year-old girl from Barcelona, Spain, with dark blond hair was placed in the Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center, the nation's oldest bilingual school. For half the day, she receives classes in Spanish; it's English for the rest. During language arts, she gets

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Five Ways The President’s Budget Would Change Medicare

In this April 8, 2013, photo, copies of President Barack Obama’s budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington. Obama is sending Congress on Wednesday, April 10, his long-awaited budget, an effort to achieve an elusive “grand bargain” to tame run-away deficits that have soared […]

Mary Agnes Carey
بواسطة Mary Agnes Carey

President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget includes a variety of what he says are "manageable" changes for Medicare's 54 million beneficiaries as well as for the hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that serve them. That assessment has drawn concern from some patient and provider groups that, although recognizing the need to

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Consequences Of More Police In Schools: Not What You’d Think

Jo Erickson Across the United States, hundreds of thousands of students are arrested or given criminal citations at schools each year. A large share are sent to court for relatively minor offenses, with Black and Hispanic students and those with disabilities disproportionately affected, according to recent reports from civil rights groups, including the Advancement Project in Washington, […]

Jo Erickson
بواسطة Jo Erickson

Jo EricksonAcross the United States, hundreds of thousands of students are arrested or given criminal citations at schools each year. A large share are sent to court for relatively minor offenses, with Black and Hispanic students and those with disabilities disproportionately affected, according to recent reports from civil rights groups, including

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Everything We Know About What’s Happened Under Sequestration

Children participate in the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced cancellation this year due to the package of mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration, the National Park Service kicked […]

Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica
بواسطة Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica

When the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt faced cancellation this year due to the package of mandatory budget cuts known as sequestration, the National Park Service kicked into high gear. It rescued the event 2014 held since 1878 2014 with money from "corporate sponsors and the sale of commemorative wooden eggs," according to the Washington

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Death Of A Diplomat: Caught In An Old War

This undated photo provided by Tom Smedinghoff, shows Anne Smedinghoff. Anne Smedinghoff, 25, was killed Saturday, April 6, 2013 in southern Afghanistan , the first American diplomat to die on the job since last year’s attack on the U.S. diplomatic installation in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Tom Smedinghoff) She was young and idealistic, caught […]

Jean MacKenzie
بواسطة Jean MacKenzie

She was young and idealistic, caught in an old war that, for many, had long since lost its raison d’etre. When 25-year-old Anne Smedinghoff died in a suicide bombing in the Afghan province of Zabul on Saturday, she sparked a painful and bitter debate about the meaning of the 11-year U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. On one side stand the

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“Race For The Cure” Or “Race To Obscure?”

The Susan G. Komen foundation’s Race for the Cure event is the world’s largest fundraising event for breast cancer education and research. (Photo / SonSoff via Flickr) Last year the Komen Foundation, the chief sponsor of Race for the Cure, the world’s largest fundraising event for breast cancer, pulled $700,000 in funding from Planned Parenthood […]

Ed Felien
بواسطة Ed Felien

Last year the Komen Foundation, the chief sponsor of Race for the Cure, the world’s largest fundraising event for breast cancer, pulled $700,000 in funding from Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening and service grants as part of the right-wing attempts to defund and destroy Planned Parenthood. A storm of protests against the Race forced

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