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Both sides blame the Federal Government for embroiling states in this debate. In 1982 the Supreme Court ruled that states must educate illegal immigrants through the 12th grade. But what then? A 1996 federal law prohibits state-level "residency based" benefits for illegal immigrants unless they are available to all U.S. citizens--in other words, to out-of-state residents too. So states crafted rules that aren't based on residency. To qualify for in-state rates at public colleges in Kansas, for example, you must spend three years in the state's high schools. University of Missouri--Kansas City...
...database—amassed from the Selective Service and Motor Vehicle Associations, as well as private vendors—was designed in order to centralize information to be used for military recruiting, which has intensified recently. Personal files may include an individual’s Social Security number, ethnicity, grade point average, and e-mail address. So far, the database has processed information for a total of 30 million people, of which 12 million are presently considered viable recruitment targets...
...black student with a 4.0 has, on average, 1.5 fewer same-race friends than a white student with a 4.0,” Fryer and Torelli write in their paper. “A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average...
...ambassador Joseph Wilson. Ironically, neither Cooper nor Miller actually outed Plame. That revelation was made almost two years ago by syndicated columnist Robert Novak commenting on Wilson's allegations that the Bush Administration, which had sent him to Niger to investigate claims of Iraq's attempt to buy weapons-grade uranium there, had ignored his finding that there was no credible evidence of such an attempt. Novak said "two senior Administration officials" had told him the CIA had dispatched Wilson at the suggestion of his wife, whom Novak revealed as Plame, "an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction...
...adults in the U.S. cannot read. And this is only some of the bad news. The figures refute the impression, based on a 1979 Census Bureau study, that only one-half of 1% of Americans over 14 are illiterate. This survey assumed that anyone who had finished the fifth grade could read, and fostered the notion that most illiterates are elderly rural people who never got that far in school. The new study shows that the majority of nonreaders are under 50 (see chart) and many have attended high school. Particularly troubling is a 22% illiteracy rate among blacks, many...