Word: governors
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...leaders if they seek refuge across the border. With such concerns in mind, Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McGraw has requested $135 million to help combat Mexican gangs, which he claimed are “the most significant threat Texas faces.” And, two months ago, Texas governor Rick Perry asked Washington for 1,000 guards to help secure the border...
...Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius will be this year’s Commencement speaker for the Harvard Kennedy School, University officials announced yesterday morning...
Kennedy School student Leroy E. Foster said he would like the governor to discuss her plans for health policy...
...counseling. I could recommend that they go, and urge that they go, and I could even offer to go over with them. And I did that repeatedly. In December 2005, [Cho] told me that he had gone over to counseling ... Unfortunately, [according to the August 2007 review by a governor-appointed panel], he was never fully evaluated...
...Everyone agrees that the existing standards aren't working; what has been lacking so far, on both sides of the ideological divide, is the political will to do anything about them. Bush and his reform-oriented Education Secretary, Margaret Spellings, recognized the problem, but as a former governor, Bush was keenly attuned to the political problem of pushing for national standards. I remember listening to him at a White House lunch he hosted for a small group attending an Aspen Institute education forum. He challenged former Democratic governor Roy Romer of Colorado, who made a case for common standards. Bush...