U.S. Pays Commentator to Tout School Law
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The Bush administration paid a prominent commentator to promote the No Child Left Behind schools law to fellow blacks and to give the education secretary media time, records show.
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By MARK SHERMAN  WASHINGTON - Parents should not be forced to hire a lawyer to sue public school districts in federal court over the special education needs of their children, the lawyer for parents of an autistic child told the Supreme Court Tuesday.
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The United States spent an average of $8,701 per pupil to educate its children in 2005, the Census Bureau said on Thursday, with some states paying more than twice as much per student as others.
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Do future generations need a legal representative today to protect their interests? Some legal and environmental scholars think so.
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NEW YORK -- The goals were clear when Sheneen Jackson enrolled her son in one of the first public schools in the nation to focus on Arabic language and culture. First, her 11-year-old would master Arabic. Later, doors would open for him in government and diplomacy -- maybe a job at the United...
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A controversial figure takes charges of a State Department advisory panel.
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Justices' representing opposing factions on the court argued issues in front of student and national TV.
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When Andy Pettitte gives a sworn deposition to staff members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, lawyers for his former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, say they know part of what he will say.
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By Blankinship, Steve  A proposed settlement announced by the U.S. Justice Department in October between the U.S.
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The Supreme Court debates whether school districts can adopt race-conscious student-assignment policies to keep schools from resegregating
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Resolved: The US government should fund primary and secondary education in the United States. In the early 1970s, high school debating teams sparred on this issue, and James M. Poterba, then a member of the debating team at Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, Pa., started thinking about tax policy and its impact.
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By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE  DENVER - The scintillating sight of state representatives debating the School Finance Act could soon be yours, for the mere cost of a subscription to Comcast's digital cable service.
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By Cherish Wilson, The Star, Shelby, N.C.  Feb. 17--SHELBY -- Some of the county's poorest schools are set to  benefit from a recent multi-million dollar settlement in a class-action  lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation.
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The relationship between colleges and students who work for them has long been a source of tax uncertainty. Congress has stepped in from time to time to clear up really important issues
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A school district agreed to pay $33,250 to settle a lawsuit by a former student who accused an elementary school teacher of wrapping tape around his head for talking too much.
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The Department of Health and Human Services said Friday that a third conservative columnist was paid to assist in promoting a Bush administration policy.
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Education Secretary Rod Paige directed his agency Thursday to begin a speedy investigation into its public relations contract with a prominent black media commentator after leaders of a Senate committee asked for records of the department's publicity deals.