Word: dropout
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...budget allotted for children through grade 12 is $6 billion short of the amount outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act for 2004. It cuts $1.5 billion in programs covering rural education, dropout prevention and physical education, among others. Ross Wiener, an education policy analyst at the Education Trust, a non-profit organization, commented that “if money indicates priorities, the president believes No Child Left Behind is one sixty-seventh as important as cutting taxes...
...passing grades and one $160,000 bequest to mother Harvard, paid in four easy installments. However, in the new ABC action-drama, “Veritas: The Quest,” the path to veritas follows no such simple script. The show chronicles the adventures of prep-school dropout Nikko Zond, who discovers that his father is not the university professor he has long claimed to be. Rather, he is the head of a secret organization called the Veritas Foundation, whose mission is to uncover the great mysteries of human civilization. Nikko joins his father as a member...
...passing grades and one $160,000 bequest to mother Harvard, paid in four easy installments. However, in the new ABC action-drama, “Veritas: The Quest,” the path to veritas follows no such simple script. The show chronicles the adventures of prep-school dropout Nikko Zond, who discovers that his father is not the university professor he has long claimed to be. Rather, he is the head of a secret organization called the Veritas Foundation, whose mission is to uncover the great mysteries of human civilization. Nikko joins his father as a member...
...state of homosexuality does not require forgiveness and is not something individuals should strive to overcome. However, even if the state of homosexuality were sinful—and even if it were a sin to be female or male, wealthy or poor, a high school dropout or a Ph.D—Catholics would be bound to treat all individuals with equal love and concern, as Jesus did in life, and as we believe he does as the Risen...
...report found that Latinos suffer the most of any minority, as they are the most segregated group and also maintain the highest levels of linguistic separation and dropout rates...