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 >>The girlfriend, 16-year-old Mickayla Friend, was critically injured, though her mother, Sandy, said at a vigil Sunday that she was breathing on her own and walking. Mickayla and her boyfriend, 16-year-old Mateus Moore, were heading to a school dance Fr
Continue reading >>A Georgetown University student who made the deadly chemical ricin in his dorm room was arrested in Washington, D.C. on Friday for illegal possession of a biological toxin, an FBI spokeswoman said. The student, Daniel Harry Milzman, made the white powd
Continue reading >>TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Looking out to a theater full of motivated college students, Hillary Rodham Clinton said their generation showed great promise as "open-minded and tolerant" Americans ready to step forward for an important cause. "We are going t
Continue reading >>GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. – A Southern California school district is the latest to consider starting a dual immersion program in Vietnamese to encourage the American children of refugees to keep the language alive. Garden Grove Unified trustees voted last
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