by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Mar 7, 2011 | Education, Politics
WASHINGTON — Walking into a classroom filled with students laughing and learning, it’s hard to imagine this charter school will close in just a few months. Places like this are supposed to be the centerpiece of the president’s plan to reshape education in...
by Astrid Goh & Tara Longardner | Mar 7, 2011 | Education, Politics
The Inspired Teaching School isn’t your typical charter school. It doesn’t offer a groundbreaking educational experience and its founders don’t necessarily believe charter schools are the answer to improving education. “We are a charter [school] because it’s a...
by Olivia Marcus & Tal Axelrod | Mar 2, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama awarded the 2010 National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to 20 honorees Wednesday in the East Room of the White House. Recipients of a National Medal of Arts included legendary musicians James Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Van...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON—Peter Meier, an independent energy economist and consultant, spoke Wednesday about renewable energies in developing countries at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. According to Meier, the future of wind power as a cost-effective...
by Roshan Nebhrajani | Mar 2, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON- When it comes to Afghanistan, the number to stay focused on is 2014, experts say. Now entering its tenth year, the war in Afghanistan surpassed Vietnam last summer as the longest in U.S. history. While the Obama administration will begin withdrawing some...
by Elisa Santana | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
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by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The head of the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce the agency’s spending by 12.5 percent in 2012 in an appearance in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “This FY 2012...
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 Elisa Santana | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
In order to create jobs and expand the economy, panelists at the Center for American Progress argued Wednesday for reforms to the American model of capitalism—a path also needed, they said, to counteract executives earning billions and potential elimination of the...
by Elena Schneider | Mar 2, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — Citing an urgent need to curb the rising costs of Medicare and Medicaid, members of the Senate Finance Committee grilled two government health fraud experts Wednesday on the effectiveness and spending habits of their organizations. “As the number of...
by Peter Larson | Mar 1, 2011 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The military descended on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, touting national security as grounds to stress the demand for passing long-awaited 2011 spending legislation. Defense Secretary Robert Gates joined Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike...
by Elena Schneider | Mar 1, 2011 | Business
Chevy Chase, Md. — In any given day, Dr. Tiffini Lucas may examine a wailing, feverish two-year old, advise a senior on exercises for arthritic pain and remove an atypical mole from a middle-aged mother’s back. Lucas is a primary care physician. In 2005, she...
