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Dramatic improvements in test scores raise questions

Some Georgia schools made astonishing improvements when their failing students were re-tested, according to an analysis of testing data by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The highly unusual turnarounds raise questions about […]
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Fixing D.C.'s Schools: The Charter Experiment

A series by The Washington Post takes a hard look at charter schools in Washington, D.C. Approximately one-third of city's children attend these independent, nonprofit schools. The investigation shows that […]
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Tacoma area voters split their tickets

Ian Demsky of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. found that nearly a third of the voters in Pierce County cast their ballots for Democratic president-elect Barack Obama and Republican […]
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Volunteer firefighting companies riddled with problems

The News Journal’s three-part series on Delaware’s volunteer firefighters exposed slow response times, manpower shortages, archaic rules and lopsided funding formulas, as well as potential solutions and alternatives to the […]
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Aviation accidents on the rise in U.S. Army

Over the past decade, there has been a marked increase in the number of Army aviation accidents, according to a report by Michael Fabey of Aviation Week.  In the first […]
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Obama found support in Oklahoma's urban precincts

Oklahoma voters gave Republican Sen. John McCain one of his largest margins of victory over Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential election earlier this month. But an analysis of precinct […]
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Unapproved prescription drugs covered by Medicaid

An Associated Press analysis of federal drug data shows the U.S. government has spent over $200 million since 2004 on drugs that have not been approved by the Food and […]
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Lawyers, doctors profiting from farm subsidies in Oklahoma

An investigation by Gavin Off of the Tulsa World revealed serious issues in the allocation of farm subsidy dollars. By cross-referencing the USDA's farm subsidy data with the Federal Elections […]
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Over 2,000 voters in Allen County, Ind. also registered in Florida

The Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Ind. found that 2,172 voters in Indiana's Allen County had names and birthdates identical to those in Florida. The newspaper performed its analysis cross-referencing […]
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Deceased voters cast ballots in Harris County, Tex.

An analysis by TexasWatchdog.com matched information from Harris County, Tex. voter rolls to Social Security death data and found ballots had been cast in the names of dead people more […]
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