Required 'Yearly Progress' Difficult to Determine (Washington Post)
Five of 24 high schools in Montgomery County failed to make adequate progress this year under the education law No Child Left Behind, but only one, Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring, is considered a repeat offender under the state and federal accountability system....more...News: Crisis in Mexico : Profs claim mass firings at former study abroad spot (Stanford Daily)
Mexico's Universidad de las Americas de Puebla (UDLA) is reeling, according to a number of UDLA students and faculty, who estimate that nearly 70 professors and 120 staff have been fired or forced to resign since the 2005 appointment of the current rector, Pedro Angel Palou....more... Current Issue: (California Aggie)
As the biological child of a foster home, Kandice Richardson Fowler knows firsthand the positive effects dedicated volunteers can have on what she describes as a "nameless, faceless population."...more... [Campus] Jones trial pushed back (The Minnesota Daily)
Hennepin County Judge Marilyn Rosenbaum ruled Wednesday to push former Gopher football player Dominic Jones' trial date back four months to March 31 - nearly a year after Jones allegedly raped an "unresponsive victim" inside a......more... Amico Brothers Plead Guilty (R News)
Two brothers appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon to plead guilty to mortgage fraud charges and avoid another trial. Forty-five year old Robert Amico pleaded guilty to obtaining false mortgage loans and conspiracy to commit bank and mortgage fraud....more... Amico Brothers Accept Plea Deal (R News)
The Amico brothers, at the center of the region's largest federal fraud case ever, accepted a plea deal in a Rochester federal court Wednesday. Robert and Richard Amico have been out of jail after serving four years for a mortgage fraud scheme....more... Filipinos irked with "Desperate Housewives" racial slur (PEP)
ay ang bad naman!!! bat ganun???...more... Mother Sentenced in Toddler's Death (R News)
Jessica Santiago will spend 20 years to life in prison after a jury convicted her last month of murdering her two-year-old son Lashawn Dunbar....more... ORU faces lawsuit (Tulsa World)
RESIGNED Brooker: He claims that students were required to work in a political campaign....more... |