The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a new taxpayer-funded college scholarship program known as D.C. Promise, which will offer high school graduates up to $7,500 per year to help pay for higher education. David A. Catania (I-At Large), who i
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as "prevar
Continue reading >>OWINGS MILLS, Md. – Police in suburban Baltimore are investigating a report of someone with a gun on the campus of Stevenson University. A message on the university's website Monday says there was a report of an active shooter and asked people to shel
Continue reading >>HARRISBURG, Pa. – Former Penn State president Graham Spanier is asking a federal judge to halt his prosecution for an alleged criminal cover-up of complaints about Jerry Sandusky. Spanier's lawyers filed a complaint Monday in federal court in Harrisbu
Continue reading >>The American Civil Liberties Union won a $70,000 settlement from a Minnesota school district this week after school officials forced a sixth-grade student to give up her Facebook password and let them search her account.
Continue reading >>A small group of angry white liberals is trying to force the administration at the University of Minnesota to revoke a speaking invitation extended to Condoleezza Rice because she played a role in the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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