Member 4754Scars remain 50 years after Chicago school inferno (AP)30-11-2008 11h36AP - Seven-year-old Dan Taglia heard the fire alarm bell from his classroom on Dec. 1, 1958, but hoped it was a signal that students were getting ice cream. It was too late in the day for a fire drill, and anyway the nuns wouldn't send the children out coatless on such a cold day. Paulson to unveil facility to boost consumer loans: report (Reuters)26-11-2008 00h52Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson plans to announce on Tuesday the formation of a program to increase the availability of auto loans, student loans and credit cards, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Wall Street extends Dow's rally to third day (AP)26-11-2008 07h47AP - Wall Street showed some signs of stability Tuesday as investors, heartened by government plans to aid consumer lending companies, selectively bought more stocks following a huge two-day rally. Gains in blue chips gave the Dow Jones industrials and the Standard & Poor's 500 index their first triple-session advance in more than two months. Feds unveil plans to unfreeze consumer debt market (AP)26-11-2008 03h36AP - The government has introduced a pair of new programs that will provide $800 billion to help unfreeze the market for consumer debt which Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson calls vital to supporting the economy. 3 Ark. school buses crash; dozens of kids hurt (AP)25-11-2008 09h52AP - Three school buses collided in a chain-reaction crash Monday in southwestern Arkansas, sending dozens of youngsters to a hospital but few with serious injuries, authorities said. New Study Might Spell the End for Federal Reading Program (U.S. News & World Report)25-11-2008 05h51U.S. News & World Report - For the past six years, the federal government has made a $6 billion investment to boost the reading skills of the nation's low-income children. But a new, federally mandated study reveals that students attending elementary schools that receive the funding have not made significant gains. The three-year study monitored the achievement of tens of thousands of students in nearly 250 elementary schools using the reading curriculum Reading First. The curriculum is a major component of the No Child Left Behind law. ... Protesters call for closing of Ga. military school (AP)24-11-2008 09h18AP - Demonstrators renewed their call Sunday to shutter a school on a Georgia Army base for Latin American military and government officials and say they're optimistic the new president or a more sympathetic Congress will act within the next year. Obamas choose private Sidwell Friends School (AP)22-11-2008 13h26AP - President-elect Barack Obama and his wife have chosen Sidwell Friends School for their two daughters, opting for a private institution that another White House child, Chelsea Clinton, attended a decade ago. New York elementary school is renamed for Obama (AP)22-11-2008 09h38AP - At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-elect Barack Obama. Fla. governor embraces college tuition increases (AP)21-11-2008 23h51AP - Gov. Charlie Crist continued to veer away from his previous opposition to raising tuition with a proposal this week allowing for increases of up to 15 percent a year at all state universities. But a top Democratic lawmaker said it's the wrong time for that course as people struggle with foreclosures and layoffs. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 3196 Member 968 Member 4240 Member 2789 Member 3233 Member 4034 Member 5309 Member 4800 Member 132 Member 1361 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 | |
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