District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty might want to worry a little. The District's most arrogant politician just got edged out in a straw poll-- he's running for reelection against current City Council chair Vincent Gray.
An article in the Los Angeles Timesreported yesterday that the Los Angeles Unified School District is prepping a large cutback in funding for students with disabilities.
A big victory came last week for advocates in the intellectual disability community: a Senate committee approved a measure that removes the words "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" from federal education, health, and labor laws. "Intellectual disability" and "individual with a mental disability" will replace the old terms.
“Venezuela’s financial support for state sponsors of terrorism is evident by Chávez’s extensive support of the Castro regime in Cuba, which is calculated to amount to $1 billion a year.”
The authors of that statement?
Across the Hudson River from the World Trade Center’s twin towers, on the Stevens Institute of Technology campus where he studied engineering, he watched plumes of smoke billow from gaping openings where the planes had just hit.
It was an unusual winter in Washington, D.C. While the city was buried beneath the area’s largest snowstorm in recorded history, AU students relished a week without classes and witnessed the collapse of the Mary Graydon Center canopy as it succumbed to the weight of over two feet of snow, falling to the ground with a resounding crash.
It’s a gorgeous mid-April day in the District. So gorgeous, in part, because the Office of Admissions at American University has chosen today to be AU Preview Day. Incoming freshmen from all over the Eastern Seaboard flock with their parents to this beacon of higher education in our nation’s capital.
