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>>>>Bios in brief: Meet the 2009 fellows<<<<
Here is an excerpt from the Carnegie report, Journalism’s Crisis in Confidence: A [...]
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News21: About the 2009 Project and the People Involved
February 9, 2009 – 9:02 am
Kobach Suing Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
September 30, 2008 – 7:16 pm
News 21 readers are by now familiar with Kris Kobach, the one-man army against illegal immigration. Kobach, who has litigated everything from Hazleton, Pa.’s defense of its immigration ordinance to a suit against San Francisco’s sanctuary law, is also fighting Kansas over a law that lets illegal immigrants who have attended state high schools to [...]
Teacher Shortage Draws Filipino Immigrants
September 15, 2008 – 6:32 pm
From rural Baldwin County, Ala., to suburban Prince George’s County, Md., teacher shortages are inviting an unlikely solution: hundreds of Filipino teachers, attracted by relatively high salaries, are coming to the U.S. to teach everything from math to special ed.
The Philippines has a teacher surplus, and U.S. school districts are sending representatives to the [...]
