A formal complaint has been filed with the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee over the refusal by the Foreign Relations Committee to investigate a wide range of scandals, including “Chinagate” and “Filegate,” in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s past while she was questioned for her appointment to secretary of state. Read More
Well what you think? Is the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee doing a good job?
Graham County, N.C., which has fewer than 1,200 students, is one of a small group of school districts in the nation attempting to establish random drug tests of teachers and other employees.
The district would be among the “very, very few” to randomly test teachers, American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Adam Wolf says.
School districts in at least four Kentucky counties — Knott, Montgomery, Letcher and Floyd — do random testing, the Kentucky Education Association’s Tim Southern said.
Teachers in Kanawha County, W.Va., came close to being subjected to such testing, but three days before its Jan. 1 start, a federal district court stopped it. The idea is also on hold in Hawaii, awaiting a state board’s ruling.
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I don’t see anything wrong in requiring teachers to have drug tests. There are many jobs that require test and these teachers are in contact with our children and therefore should be the first to be tested for drugs! Another person that should have to be tested is the president of the U.S. What is your opinion on this issue?
When it comes to homeownership, Hispanics in New Jersey, single parents in California and senior citizens in Rhode Island all have something in common: More than a third have an unaffordable mortgage.
Inequality in America has traditionally followed familiar patterns of race, age and education.
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Many Latino families wound up with expensive subprime mortgages because they often have cash income and no bank account, said Janis Bowdler. No kidding, could that be that they are not citizens and are working under the table and don’t pay income taxes?
