by Tanner Howard | Mar 19, 2015 | Environment
By Tanner Howard WASHINGTON – Spring may begin Friday, but you wouldn’t know that if you looked at the cherry blossoms that line the capital’s Tidal Basin. An unusually cold February has delayed the peak bloom days of the cherry blossoms. Typically, the blossoms reach...
by Tanner Howard | Mar 19, 2015 | Education
After her first semester at the University of Nevada-Reno, 20-year-old English major Mariah Birnbaum hit a wall: she couldn’t afford her tuition. Despite being an A student in high school and with parents earning almost $100,000 per year, her costs mounted,...
by Tanner Howard | Mar 17, 2015 | Health & Science, Topics
WASHINGTON – A cavalcade of celebrities, including basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, descended on Washington Tuesday to announce their support for a new effort to boost cancer research. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and Stand Up 2 Cancer...
by Tanner Howard | Mar 11, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has a “responsibility to do better” in advancing its top education goal of reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, according to a top White House education advisor. Roberto Rodriguez, deputy assistant to the...
by Tanner Howard | Mar 10, 2015 | Business
By Tanner Howard WASHINGTON – Just a few years ago, the idea of an American business group entering Cuba and fostering economic activity with its people would have been unthinkable. But economic liberalization in the country, coupled with thawing tensions between the...
by Tanner Howard | Mar 9, 2015 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Seventy-nine year old Carol Berman’s cherry-red earrings and coat stand out against her shock-white hair, a bright contrast to the gray Health and Human Services Building behind her as she greets passersby Monday morning with cookies and coffee . “I am...
by Tanner Howard | Mar 2, 2015 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, questioned about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial trip to Washington, said Monday the Israeli-U.S. relationship cannot be reduced to a battle between “political parties.” Earnest fielded...
by Tanner Howard | Feb 20, 2015 | Topics
WASHINGTON – Ellington Turner and his mother, Marlece, began to cry. The seventh-grader had just gotten word that his school, MacFarland Middle School in Washington, D.C.’s fast-gentrifying Petworth neighborhood, would be closed following the 2012-2013 school year....
by Tanner Howard | Feb 18, 2015 | Education
By Tanner Howard WASHINGTON – The number of students in afterschool programs has increased to more than 10 million in the past 10 years. But a proposal to change how federal afterschool funding is allocated could jeopardize some of those programs and make it more...
by Tanner Howard | Feb 11, 2015 | Education
By Tanner Howard WASHINGTON – Hoping to replace the No Child Left Behind law, House Republicans advanced legislation out of committee Wednesday reining in the federal government’s role in education as members once again sought to write legislation replacing the 2001...
by Tanner Howard | Feb 4, 2015 | Education
WASHINGTON—With an eye toward the 2016 presidential race, potential Republican candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence made his case Wednesday for his state’s education system and regulatory environment as a model for the rest of the nation. “We believe our state has been...
by Tanner Howard | Jan 21, 2015 | Politics
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