NAfME – Music Education – Legislative Memo: Arts and Arts Education Issues in...
With the political conventions concluded and the balloon drops and acceptance speeches out of the way, focus shifts to the November 6 presidential election. NAfME studied the Democratic and Republican...
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Responding to a recent surge in Asian voter populations, Nevada and 10 other states are being compelled by federal law to print ballots and other voting materials in languages other then English. Other...
View ArticleLizeth Tamayo from Poplar Grove earns Gates Millennium Scholarship |...
ROCK ISLAND – Two members of the Augustana College first-year class – Lizeth Tamayo and Michael Harrison – are recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, a program established in 1999 with a $ 1...
View ArticleWorking class voters: Why America’s poor are willing to vote Republican
Tracey Owings is fighting hard to keep the home that has been in his family for 34 years. In 2000 his mother refinanced. In 2006 she died. In 2009 he lost his job and had no paid work for nine months....
View ArticleTexas Supreme Court still in Republican hands | Southeast Texas Record
AUSTIN — Two incumbents and one new Republican justice have been elected to the Texas Supreme Court, retaining the GOP hold on the state’s highest court. DON WILLETT He beat out Libertarian candidate...
View ArticleNAfME – Music Education – House Committee on Education and the Workforce...
On June 19, the House Education & the Workforce Committee marked up Chairman John Kline’s (R-Minnesota) new Elementary & Secondary Education Act (ESEA) proposal – H.R. 5, the Student Success...
View ArticleIt’s Not Everyday a Republican Governor Calls Out President Obama’s...
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is furious that the Department of Justice wants control of Louisiana’s private school voucher program, and he’s not afraid to let them know it. Why would the DOJ be...
View ArticleDownWithTyranny!: Why Is Republican John Kline Blocking Student Loan...
The battle over refinancing student debt has been playing out– badly– in the Senate. Senate Republicans have filibustered Elizabeth Warren’s bill so that it couldn’t even be formally devoted on the...
View ArticleRepublican National Committee Condemns New AP History Framework – Curriculum...
UPDATED The Republican National Committee is calling for a fight against the College Board’s new framework for Advanced Placement U.S. History, claiming that it “deliberately distorts and/or edits out...
View ArticleWealthy, vindictive, Republican UNC Board of Governors silences law school’s...
According to the Poverty Center’s director, Gene Nichol (Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor and former dean of the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law): We have one of the country’s fastest rising poverty...
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