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Don't believe media: Sequester already causing real pain
Regular readers of this column have heard me say it before, but I'll say it again: I'm often embarrassed by the questions my colleagues ask at White House briefings. This week was no exception. Among reporters inside the Beltway, the latest narrative,...
Tags: Poverty, Budget Control Act of 2011, Federal Aviation Administration, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Palm Beach County
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Education briefs for April 4
education@jessaminejournal.comWest Middle FCCLA goes to state West Jessamine Middle School FCCLA had 10 students representing the school at the state FCCLA leadership conference in Louisville on March 25-27. The students participated in the business sessions to elect the new...Tags: Entertainment, University of Louisville, Eastern Kentucky University, Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities
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Sequester cuts to cost Palm Beach County elderly, children under measures approved Tuesday
Sun SentinelNeedy senior citizens won’t get breakfast and poor children won’t get rides to pre-school under $2 million in Palm Beach County budget cuts approved Tuesday as a result of Congress failing to reach a budget deal. The county expects to lose...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, AIDS, Politics, U.S. Congress, Palm Beach County Commission
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Pre-K funding is delivered another blow
States are spending less on pre-kindergarten programs than they did a decade ago, according to a report released Monday. The National Institute for Early Education Research released the State of Preschool 2012 report, calling the last school year...
Tags: Early Learning, Schools, Barack Obama, Preschools, Air Transportation Delays
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Agencies in Maryland dodge furloughs — for now
A month after across-the-board federal spending cuts began, there are signs that one of the most troubling potential consequences for Maryland — the furloughing of federal employees — might not be as widespread as initially feared. But the...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Budget Control Act of 2011, Interior Policy, Anirban Basu, Unemployment
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Congress Flies Through A Fix – To Help Congress
It's nice that Congress managed to unclog the air routes by un-sequestering air traffic controllers at small airports such as Tweed in New Haven, but really, the gesture is less than public-spirited. Former state Rep. Patrick J. Flaherty, now an...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Air Transportation Industry, U.S. Senate, Joe Courtney, Politics
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Education briefs for March 28
education@jessaminejournal.comWilmore SMART winners Each grading period, homeroom teachers select two students who exemplify the SMART rules at Wilmore Elementary. The following students are the winners for the third nine weeks of the 2012-2013 school year: • Jenny Derr&...Tags: Students, Education, Teaching and Learning, Asha
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The morality brigade
We're still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America. In recent weeks, Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in...
Tags: Democracy, Elections, Parties and Movements, Politics, Eric Holder
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High-quality preschool program produces long-term economic payoff
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Embargoed for Release Friday, February 4, 2011 12:01 a.m. Contact: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller 301-496-5133 High-quality preschool program produces long-term...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Health and Safety at School, Teachers, Chicago Public Schools, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Phelps Luck paraeducator in spotlight as national honoree
For those who believe Phelps Luck Elementary School paraeducator Donna Schulze is too outspoken or too uncompromising on issues relating to her profession, she's got a message for you: Too bad. "If I see something, I'm going to speak up," said Schulze,...
Tags: Schools, Mount Airy, Preschools, Teachers, Employees
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Congress approves government funding, ending shutdown threat
WASHINGTON -- A stopgap measure to keep the government funded at a new, lower level cleared a final hurdle in Congress on Thursday and is headed for President Obama’s signature, ending the threat of a government shutdown. The House quickly...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Barack Obama, Media Industry, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Food giveaway benefits Head Start children, families
The families of nearly 400 children in Baltimore Head Start classes received boxes packed with healthy food items Thursday from Feed the Children and the United Way of Central Maryland. Another 400 boxes will be distributed to low-income families this...
Tags: Healthy Diet, Vincent de Paul, Diets and Dieting, Feed the Children, United Way
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