A coalition including parents, educators and the 13,000-member National Education Association are suing the state, alleging that school district budgets fail to adequately provide for state-mandated exit exam proficiency.
DENVER - A report released Monday said the nation's judges are facing a "crisis of confidence" and need to be held accountable, but criticized ballot initiatives intended to crack down on judges as misguided.
Congress is patting itself on the back for passing the Port Security Act last Saturday. But the day before, a House-Senate conference committee stripped out a provision that would have barred serious felons from working in sensitive dock security jobs.
There's a new report out reviewing the performance of the nation's judges. The study was put together by researchers at the University of Denver. Former state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Love-Kourlis says it shows that the judicial performance evaluation system used in 21 states is working.
TOLEDO -- Lawyers have filed the first northwest Ohio lawsuit in the E.coli outbreak that's been traced to contaminated spinach. A Toledo-based law firm filed the suit in US District Court on behalf of a Wood County family, claiming a spinach salad sold by Natural Selection Foods made them sick.
``Jesus Power and Light'' -- a free-electricity promotion denounced by scientists, consumer advocates and state attorneys general -- was pitched at an Akron City Council member's Sept. 5 ward meeting.
The state goes on trial Monday, charged with shortchanging Alaska schools for decades and cheating children of the education promised by the state constitution.
10 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1996–The employment future of Michael Henchman and the other 281 city utility workers will be set Oct. 8 when Fairbanks voters decide whether to sell the Municipal Utilities System to a consortium of four companies.
Four companies bid $13.8 million for the rights to develop 81 oil and gas blocks on 940,000 acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday.
