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For Immediate Release December 15, 2011 Obama Administration Releases Report and Interactive Maps Highlighting Critical American Jobs Act Investments in Education WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Obama Administration released a report, Education and the American Jobs Act: Creating Jobs through Investments in Our Nation’s Schools, and interactive maps that highlight estimated benefits that states and local school districts would receive if Congress acts to pass the American Jobs Act.  The White House report provides an analysis of the condition of America’s schools, which have fallen into disrepair, as well as the difficult budget environment facing school districts and teachers nationwide. ...

Forty years ago, women in North America began a sustained and organized protest against entrenched interests that denied them equal opportunity in the workplace, equal pay and the right to be taken seriously as candidates for public office. The backlash was immediate and furious: Women didn't deserve to be paid as much as men. Their natural talents confined them to teaching and nursing. They were not smart enough, well-informed enough or tough enough to run for public office. If Michele Bachmann had emerged 40 years ago, it would have felt like the Old Boys who ran the world had a...

Viroqua, WI - Viroqua High School officials chose to cancel tomorrow's Diversity Day activities after Liberty Counsel presented legal precedent requiring inclusion of the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals. The school scheduled sessions for the students that presented the viewpoints of Hmong, Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, African-Americans, homosexuals, Latinos, Buddhists, the physically disadvantaged, and the economically disadvantaged, but not Christians or former homosexuals. Diversity Day would have been held tomorrow, March 23, 2006. After a school official stated that the viewpoints of Christians and former homosexuals would be excluded, a resident contacted Liberty Counsel on behalf of many other...