Education

July 27, 2006 - By way of C.E. Petro, Mother Jones has a report on some statistics entitled "How the poor get dinged at every turn." Here is a random sampling:

June 27, 2006 - The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2006 Kids Count study was released today, and while there are some improvements the findings are not encouraging for the South. The study looks at several indicators of child well-being in every state.

June 19, 2006 - South Carolina governor Mark Sanford (R) has signed into a law a bill that allows students to receive credit for bible school. As The State reports,

June 6, 2006 - A new report by the Southern Growth Policy Board says:

May 25, 2006 - This may be old news for some of you, but I just stumbled across this story the other day:

April 18, 2006 - Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue signed Georgia's tough new immigration legislation into law yesterday:

March 24, 2006 - The Arkansas Times breaks an important story this week in the national war against science and reason, this time in the state's public schools:

March 23, 2006 - Florida lawmakers say that 30,000 students attending private schools on taxpayer funded vouchers should not be held to the same FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) testing requirements as students attending public schools:

March 23, 2006 - It's not just Halliburton that's raking in big contracts these days. The Washington Post has a revealing story today about far-right, religious organizations that are landing mega-deals under the Bush administration, like Heritage Community Services in Charleston, South Carolina:

February 7, 2006 - Mayors from three of the four large metropolitan counties in Tennessee met with Gov. Bredesen to discuss the state's Basic Education Plan funding formula. They argue that their counties are being shortchanged: