Budget turmoil in Ryan plan harms downstate districts
The Ryan budget promises foundation level funding benefiting downstate schools while risking losses for others. Lawmakers note uncertainty about actual district impact due to withheld details and delays in a full school aid formula rewrite. Advisory board members warn against mere grant shifts. educators fear funding gaps unless grants end. Local superintendents anticipate a spirited spring debate as plans falter or advance.
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Illinois State Board of Education
Ryan budget would cut 22 grant programs in Southern Illinois
Gov. George Ryan proposes a budget that eliminates 22 grant funded programs affecting schools in Southern Illinois. Programs named include ADA Block Grant Gifted Education Reimbursement School Breakfast Incentive Program and several statewide initiatives in reading mathematics science and career education.
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Chip implant faces FDA approval as voluntary human use debated
Applied Digital of Palm Beach plans FDA approval for a human VeriChip and will limit marketing to voluntary uses. The device, about the size of a grain of rice, is implanted by a doctor and read by a scanner to reveal encoded medical data.
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Keith Bolton
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Terry Cook
Jeff Jacobs
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Bush proposes welfare reform emphasizing work and family
President Bush outlines a 40 hour work week for welfare recipients with school programs for teenage mothers and options for education job training or rehab on two work days. He calls for 200 million federal and up to 100 million state funds for marriage support and pre marital counseling. States could redirect fathers child support to children. Immigration food stamp provisions are revised to include five years residency.
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Were You There: A Lynching Lecture Omitted Details
The Southern Illinoisan notes an accuracy concern about missing the location of Joseph Brown's free lecture Were You There A Meditation on Lynching and Reflection on an American Tragedy. The event starts at 7 30 p m today in Student Center Ballroom D at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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Harvard University
University of Maryland At College Park
American Councils of International Education
Jackson County
Joseph Brown
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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