Top Teacher Raps Tax Credits Merit Pay in Education Fight
Washington AP reports 1985 National Teacher of the Year Lawrence Knecht Dozier, a South Carolina teacher born in Saigon, criticizes private tuition tax credits and merit pay as threats to public schools. She cited personal pay of 21 500 dollars, her Fulbright study in China, and NASA shuttle competition ties while advocating strong public funding and teacher support.
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Washington
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White House
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William J. Bennett
National Education Association
China
NASA
Saigon
Hitler
Waffen SS
Vietnam
French Indochina
Lawrence Knecht
Century Twins of Ashland Celebrate 100th Birthdays
William Sexton and Margaret Adams, fraternal twins born April 16 1885 on a Music Kentucky farm, celebrated a century with about 100 relatives. They faced astonishing odds to reach 100 as twins with one in 700 million cited. Both once ran grocery stores and Sexton, a longtime Democrat, quipped about a Reagan birthday card.
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Margaret Adams
Sexton
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John Phipps
Afflinghton
John
Guinness
Mrs. Adams
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Music, Ky
Cynthia
Adams
West Virginia
Kentucky
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Reagan
Margaret Sexton Adams
Princess Michael of Kent reveals exoneration of her Nazi ties
In a TV interview from Kensington Palace, Princess Michael of Kent says she is deeply ashamed to learn her father Baron Gueter von Reibnitz was an SS major, but asserts he was exonerated by the Allies and held only an honorary, non combat role. The Daily Mirror reported his Nazi party membership and SS officer rank, while noting his dismissal in 1944 and exile from the Nazi party.
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Kensington Palace
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Allies’ Court of Appeal
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Daily Mirror
Bohemia
Baron Gueter von Reibnitz
von Reibnitz
Adolf Hitler
Double-Digit Jobless Seen Across States in February
Nine states posted double digit unemployment in February while 35 states and the District of Columbia showed declines from a year earlier. West Virginia led at 15.4 percent. Michigan fell 2.4 points to 10.2 percent as auto production improved. Massachusetts dropped to 4.4 percent, the lowest in the nation.
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Labor Department
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Michigan
Massachusetts
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