"New York, Florida and Pennsylvania are among the 16 first-round finalists in the federal grant competition known as Race to the Top, in which states compete for a share of $4 billion in school improvement funds, the federal Department of Education said Thursday.
Today, President Obama will host members of Congress from both political parties at the White House to discuss health reform. He has already put on the table an ambitious plan that takes elements from the bills already passed by the House and Senate and adds others, such as an agency to control health-insurance premiums.
During the 2008 presidential election many critics blamed Sarah Palin's handlers for sheltering Palin from the press and keeping her bottled up. It seems like Meg Whitman's campaign is doing the same thing in California.
“We have to address this deficit and the debt of the U.S. as a matter of national security, not only as a matter of economics,” U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton said.
Obama appointed left-wing, previously controversial head of Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern, to his new bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
"Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, the leading anti-abortion Democrat during last year's health care negotiations, is making it clear that the abortion language included in the Senate's health care bill is unacceptable to him and several like-minded colleagues.
The hand of the government extends further as the Head of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, plans to regulate greenhouse admissions, but not until 2011. Republicans say that this delays "job killing" until after the elections.
Army officials express serious concerns over the potential repeal of the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy, saying that they need more time to study its implementation. The policy prohibits self-deemed gays, lesbians, and bisexuals from becoming soldiers, but stops the military from asking about sexual orientation.
Newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown shocked the nation last month when he took over Ted Kennedy’s seat. Well, he’s done it again. Brown is in favor of the jobs bill.
December 19 marks the birth of John Taylor of Caroline, a founder called “the most impressive political theorist that America has produced,” yet who remains virtually unknown.Read More
In 1998, Californians voted to pass Proposition 227, the “English for the Children Act,” and dismantle the state’s bilingual-education industry. The results, according to California’s education establishment, were not supposed to look like this: button-cute Hispanic pupils at a Santa Ana elementary school boasting about their English skills to a visitor. Those same pupils cheerfully calling out to their principal on their way to lunch: “Hi, Miss Champion!” A statewide increase in English proficiency among all Hispanic students.Read More
One way to reduce the wear and tear of Christmas shopping at the mall is to give books as presents. Books can be bought on the Internet, and they can be matched to the person who receives them without having to know that person's measurements.Read More