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Report Cites Chronic Absenteeism in City Schools
Source: The New York Times
by JENNIFER MEDINA More than 90,000 of New York City's elementary school students - roughly 20 percent - missed at least a month of classes during the last school year, with attendance problems most acute in central Brooklyn, Harlem and the South Bronx, according to…
Resource type: News
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2,000 children put into State care in 2006
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN ALMOST 2,000 children were admitted into State care in 2006 due to abuse or neglect in their families, according to an unpublished report compiled by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The figures are contained in a national review of child and family…
Resource type: News
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Law Professor Elected President of the A.C.L.U.
Source: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The American Civil Liberties Union elected a new president on Saturday, choosing a constitutional law scholar who said she would reach out to African-Americans and to religious communities where the group has often been viewed more as foe than friend. The selection of Susan Herman,…
Resource type: News
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Is America Ready to Vote? State Preparations for Voting System Problems in 2008
Source: Brennan Center for Justice; Common Cause Education Fund; Verified Voting Foundation
This 2008 report by the Brennan Center for Justice looks at the laws, regulations and procedures of all 50 states and the District of Columbia in four key areas related to their preparedness for voting system failure. The Brennan Center is a grantee of The…
Resource type: Research Report
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Income levy grossly unfair to low earners warns charity
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN PEOPLE ON low incomes will be hit hardest by the introduction of an 1 per cent income levy in the Budget, a number of lobby groups for the disadvantaged warned yesterday. The Society of St Vincent de Paul said the levy was…
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The Centre for Cross Border Studies Yearbook - Year 6
Source: The Centre for Cross Border Studies
The Centre for Cross Border Studies, now in its 6th Year of operation, has had another busy and productive twelve months. Under the leadership of director Andy Pollak, the Centre's expanded team has taken on a range of new challenges. These range from a major…
Resource type: News
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Charter school group gets $2.6 million grant Educators: College-ready rolls will increase
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock)
by CYNTHIA HOWELL The Knowledge Is Power Program of charter schools in the Delta has received a $2.6 million grant to help open 10 more schools in four Arkansas towns by 2019. The schools would be patterned after the program's Delta College Preparatory middle and…
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South Africa officially accepts HIV link to AIDS
Source: The Associated Press
The new health minister broke dramatically Monday from a decade of discredited South African government policies on AIDS, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine. Health Minister Barbara Hogan's pronouncement marked the official end to denial…
Resource type: News
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Charities' gold mine: 'giving while living';
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle (California)
Original Source by Meredith May Several times a year, Heidi Hess and James Rucker of San Francisco go online, PayPal style, and redirect their wealth to their favorite charities. They are tactical philanthropists - part of a growing group of socially conscious givers in the…
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Tennis star, philanthropist celebrated in 'Great Fletch' bio
Source: ABC Brisbane
Original Source The late Ken Fletcher was widely known in the 1960s as a larrikin tennis player with the best forehand in the world, who never fulfilled his potential. But his death three years ago hardly made the headlines, and his friends fear his role…
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