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---SNIP--- the cost of merely getting Kareem Bellamy to and from school every day runs the taxpayer about $58,450 annually — more than a year of undergraduate tuition at Columbia University, the most expensive college in America. The district’s cost for the average bus rider is about $4,500 a year. Something that comes with a Cadillac price, one would assume, comes with Cadillac service. But when WHYY asked parents, advocates, and lawyers about taxicab transportation for students, we heard more grumbling than gratitude.

As the documents on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan are slowly released to the public, the paper trail shows that the candidate's views are even worse than conservatives feared. Kagan is 'extreme Leftwing.' The mainstream media, liberals on Capitol Hill, and Bill Clinton, whose library houses some of Kagan's documents, all lied when they claimed her paper trail was 'thin.' The truth is there is substantial information on the extremist nominee to the Court, and Bill Clinton has even threatened to withhold some of the documents. So did the White House. Here is what has been revealed most recently: Fact...

The Supreme Court is considering oral arguments in two cases that pit school choice against school desegregation. The high court’s ruling, expected in Spring 2007, will determine whether a public school system can use a race-based formula to promote diversity at individual schools at the expense of individual students. Or to put the issue in stark, black-and-white terms: Is the state’s interest in improving the quality of the education minority kids receive compelling enough to justify destroying the quality of life of white kids – and the quality of the education they receive? On one side, are white parents in...