by Rebecca Cohen | Mar 15, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With a possible government shutdown still looming if Congress fails to pass a 2011 budget bill, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives accused Republicans on Tuesday of holding the country in suspense by proposing a budget that would...
by Rebecca Cohen | Mar 9, 2011 | Politics
At a clinic in Kenya, a woman recently grieved for her child as he gasped for his last breaths. A few miles away, a woman in another clinic sat by her son’s bedside and made joyful plans for his future schooling. The difference between the two incidents was a 13-cent...
by Rebecca Cohen | Mar 9, 2011 | Education, Politics
In physical terms, the trip Harvard junior Victoria Migdal makes five times a week to train with MIT’s Reserve Officer Training Corps spans a mere two miles. The cultural gap it represents between the military and Migdal’s school—which has not had its own ROTC program...
by Rebecca Cohen | Mar 2, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — With upheaval spreading across the Middle East, now is the wrong time for proposed cuts to the State Department budget, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday. A 16 percent hit to State Department funding in the 2011 continuing budget...
by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 23, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON–Education Secretary Arne Duncan pitched the administration’s 2012 education budget request to a roomful of mayors from around the nation Wednesday, emphasizing how increased funding for early childhood and adult education will address the concerns of...
by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 15, 2011 | Politics
What do George H. W. Bush, Stan Musial and Maya Angelou have in common? The former president, baseball legend and Pulitzer-nominated poet are among 15 people who received the 2010 Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in a presentation ceremony earlier this...
by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 9, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Lines of protesters, reporters and congressional staff snaked down the halls of the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday and Wednesday as they waited to hear testimony on two bills that would permanently ban federal funding of abortion. Not the...
by Rebecca Cohen | Feb 2, 2011 | Education
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan decried the “false choice” between career readiness and college readiness Wednesday in response to a Harvard University study that suggests high schools should steer many students toward occupational education...
by Rebecca Cohen | Jan 19, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Between discussing civic issues from drug abuse to water conservation Wednesday morning, the United States Conference of Mayors paused to honor the victims of the deadly on shootings in Tucson on Jan. 8 with a moment of silence. Tucson Mayor Robert...
by Rebecca Cohen | Jan 11, 2011 | Education
By Rebecca Cohen and Allyson Byers | Medill News Service WASHINGTON — It doesn’t take a K-12 education to see how states could shrug off their budget deficits by adopting school vouchers, Patrick Byrne said Tuesday at an education forum hosted by the Cato Institute....
by Rebecca Cohen | Jan 5, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio., was elected speaker of the House of Representatives as the 112th Congress convened for the first time Wednesday, returning divided government to the nation’s capital after a two year interlude. A cheer went up from...
