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...Good tests - ones that probe true learning and not last-minute cramming - are expensive. Michigan, Maryland and a few other states are using such well-regarded tests now, but these can cost upwards of $25 a pupil. Full implementation of the Bush plan, with high-quality tests in all 50 states, could cost up to $7 billion. The current legislation earmarks $370 million for this purpose...
...criminal charges were filed. A source involved in the FBI probe said the Clinton Administration seemed indifferent to the intelligence--and worried about going after a group with religious ties. "It's not like it was a big secret," the source said. "We knew there was a connection with Hamas." An official close to the current investigation claims the FBI forestalled an attempt five years ago to freeze the charity's funds for fear it would hamper a criminal case. But on Sept. 5, Treasury and FBI agents raided the Elashi family's computer firm in Richardson, InfoCom, and froze...
...Good tests - ones that probe true learning and not last-minute cramming - are expensive. Michigan, Maryland and a few other states are using such well-regarded tests now, but these can cost upwards of $25 a pupil. Full implementation of the Bush plan, with high-quality tests in all 50 states, could cost up to $7 billion. The current legislation earmarks $370 million for this purpose next year...
Still, the criticism seems to have had an impact. The day before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings began, the Administration published a list of the names of 93 people arrested in connection with the terror probe. Although it refused to identify the rest of the 548 detainees still in custody, it did give a more detailed accounting of them, including their places of birth, the charges against them, and their dates of arrest...
...Reid thinks he's struck the fatal blow. "This report could very well signal the beginning of the end of the Yucca Mountain project," he predicts. He and Berkely had ordered up the GAO probe after an anonymous whistleblower sent a letter to the Energy Department's inspector general charging waste, fraud and abuse in the Yucca project. The GAO findings also come on the heels of revelations that a Chicago law firm the Energy Department hired to help guide the project through the licensing process had been lobbying Congress on behalf of the nuclear industry. The firm denied...