Word: virginia
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...Chairman Steele is among the most articulate spokesman our party has to offer." - Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick, chairman of the Virginia GOP after Steele's win; Steele has appeared on Fox's Hannity Colmes, Comedy Central's Colbert Report and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (Washington Post...
...With reporting by Virginia Lopez / Caracas
...grade grubbers go the spoils. And the grade grubbers in this case are rabble-rousing parents in Virginia's Fairfax County. Residents of the high-powered Washington suburb have been battling the school district's tough grading practices; chief among their complaints is that a score of 93% gets recorded as a lowly B+. After forming an official protest group called Fairgrade last year and goading the school board into voting on whether to ease the standards, parents marshaled 10,000 signatures online and on Jan. 22 gathered nearly 500 supporters to help plead their case. After two hours...
...both sides still have to manage their expectations. Gibson recalls an e-mail he got from one parent. "It said, 'My daughter's a solid C student, and if you don't change the grading scale, she's never going to get into the University of Virginia,' " he says, referring to the state's highly selective flagship public university. "I'm thinking, No, we're going to have to change the grading scale a lot." After all, the goal is achieving fairness, not fantasy...
...When Virginia's Democratic Senator Mark Warner asked the SEC nominee if "we needed prohibition of some financial instruments?, she answered cautiously: "We will explore prohibiting some instruments." She added that one big problem was turf wars among regulatory agencies. "Regulators need to cooperate," she said. "We haven't shared in past, we need a maximum number of eyes" to stop fraud...