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D.C. principal under investigation for allegedly doctoring student transcripts
The principal of the District's leading technology high school is under investigation for allegedly doctoring student transcripts, school officials said Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 3:13 PM
64 senators seek presidential leadership on debt reduction
A group of 64 offers support for serious action on reducing the national debt.
Monday, March 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Freedom for Thomas Haynesworth
Now Virginia needs to offer the wrongly convicted man total exoneration.
Monday, March 21, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Egypt's referendum is a step toward democracy
There is worry about what's ahead, but the vote may have been the fairest in its history.
Monday, March 21, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Mr. Obama hasn't overstepped on Libya
Mr. Obama hasn't overstepped on Libya, but he could do more to clarify the U.S. mission.
Monday, March 21, 2011 at 5:39 PM
Montgomery County school board reclaims farmland - to build soccer fields
Hawks used to look out to watch over for this piece of farmland for trouble. Soon, it will be parents and umpires monitoring kids pounding cleats on the land Nick Maravell once tilled. The change in land use tells a more complex story about school development, particularly at a time when open space
Monday, March 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM
Montgomery County school board reclaims farmland - to build soccer fields
Hawks used to look out to watch over for this piece of farmland for trouble. Soon, it will be parents and umpires monitoring kids pounding cleats on the land Nick Maravell once tilled. The change in land use tells a more complex story about school development, particularly at a time when open space
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Asking military retirees to pay a bit more for health care is reasonable
"SIMPLY UNSUSTAINABLE." That is Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates's assessment of the spiraling cost of the health-care system for military personnel, retirees and their families. Mr. Gates is correct - and he is correct to press for modest increases in premiums paid by those covered by the system,...
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 7:05 PM
Competing visions for reviewing Guantanamo
JUST DAYS after President Obama issued an executive order to govern long-term detentions at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Republican members of the House and Senate shot back by offering their own, strikingly different proposals.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 6:51 PM
As Thomas Jefferson adds help for poor English skills, some Va. parents fume
Fairfax school board member: "How can they not know the language and still get into [Thomas Jefferson]?" The Va. magnet school has added an English as a second language instructor.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 7:39 AM