by Jonathan Palmer | Feb 4, 2014 | Living
WASHINGTON – If President Barack Obama’s recently announced Promise Zones initiative succeeds, five poverty-stricken neighborhoods across the country — urban and rural — will soon receive resources and volunteers to act on their plans for revitalization....
by Jonathan Palmer | Jan 29, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON — Yellow scarves emblazoned with the logo, “National Charter School Week,” circled everyone’s neck at the “Put Kids First” rally at Friendship Chamberlin Elementary’s gymnasium on Wednesday. Speakers included House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and...
by Jonathan Palmer | Jan 28, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday night to provide money to states for early childhood education while asking Congress to make pre-K education available to every 4-year-old in America. “As Congress decides what it’s going to do, I’m going to pull...
by Jonathan Palmer | Jan 22, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON – Increased access to early childhood education, improved workforce readiness and closing the socioeconomic achievement gap in education are top goals for 2014, a group of mayors from across the nation said Wednesday. At the winter meeting of the U.S....
by Jonathan Palmer | Jan 15, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama hosted groups advocating for more college opportunity for disadvantaged youth as well as high school educators in an event at the White House Wednesday focused on helping students in under-served communities get to college....
by Jonathan Palmer | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
Close to 150 protesters from various human and constitutional rights organizations called for President Barack Obama to make good on his promise of closing Guantanamo Bay on the 12th anniversary of the prison’s opening. The reasons were varied, but the message...
