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Virginia's Tea Parties on top

Virginia's Tea Party movement has grown with a vengeance to become what some observers say is the best organized such movement in the country. Its success, and strident resentment of current politics, will be in evidence Friday and Saturday...

By Peter Galuszka  | October 6, 2010; 10:34 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (3)
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An Opportunity That Works for D.C. Schoolchildren

By Joe Lieberman Education Secretary Arne Duncan "will use only one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars: It's not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works." So said President Obama...

By Stephen Stromberg  | June 22, 2009; 1:57 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
 
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Vouchers and D.C.: What a Good School Can Do

By Bruce B. Stewart Washington In 2003, two influential men of disparate political perspectives — D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams and President George W. Bush — united on the goal of giving educational choice to low-income children in the District...

By Vince Rinehart  | May 13, 2009; 5:33 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
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Mayor Fenty MIA on Vouchers

By Marc Thiessen Eight days after President Obama took the oath of office, another less noted inauguration took place in our nation's capitol -- when Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty swore in Ronald Holassie as deputy youth mayor for legislative affairs....

By Marisa Katz  | March 5, 2009; 12:33 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (1)
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