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Washington (CNSNews.com) - Some of the almost 10,000 members of the National Education Association (NEA) attending the teachers union's annual conference this week in the nation's capital spoke out on the issues they hope their lobbyists will fight for during next year's legislative session, including the establishment of a peace academy, in-state college tuition and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who graduate from high school. Susie Jablinske, a first grade teacher at Central Elementary School in Edgewater, Md., said children who are in the country illegally should have the same educational rights as American children. She proposed that...

Santa Barbara, Calif. -- Nearly a year after Santa Barbara High School ended its Junior ROTC class, anti-war activist and former Councilman Babatunde Folayemi is proposing the school integrate a peace academy. "Everybody talks about peace, but we don't do anything institutionally to make it happen," Vietnam veteran Folayemi said. "It's time we start educating our young people in that direction." He wants the dismantled Junior ROTC class replaced with what he calls The Peace Academy. Supporters of Junior ROTC, which was axed by a school board citing financial woes and declining participation, alleged last year that the military program...