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Indiana official confirms that rating for politically connected school was altered
2013-08-08 16:47:00| American School & University
Change in rating for Christel House Academy led to the resignation of Florida's education commissioner, who had been Indiana's top education official. Schoolhouse Beat read more
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Obama Climate Change Strategy: Politically Realistic or Strategy for Disaster?
2013-07-28 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Real News Network: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Baltimore. On June 25, President Obama made a speech announcing his new climate change policies. Was his strategy a guarantee of climate change disaster, or a reasonable, modest, measured approach, and in fact the only one that's actually politically possible? Well, we're going to debate that today. But first let's see what President Obama said. Here's a little clip. ~~~ BARACK OBAMA, U.S. PRESIDENT: I refuse to condemn...
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Fighting climate change should be top priority both politically and financially
2013-07-06 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Contra Costa Times: President Barack Obama launched a long overdue national Climate Action Plan in his Georgetown University speech on June 26, but it did not fully come to grips with the climate emergency already upon us. An emergency has two basic components: It presents a grave threat to life, liberty, property, or the environment, and the situation requires immediate action. Climate change is obviously already doing grave damage to the Earth, and it threatens to do even more harm, per numerous studies. Thus,...
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Clean energy: a 'politically popular' solution to climate change
2013-01-16 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: As part of an ongoing series of conversations about building America's energy future, the Monitor hosted a roundtable discussion in Washington on Dec. 12, 2012 with several clean-energy experts. The video below is an excerpt from panelist Richard Caperton, the director of clean energy investment at the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based progressive educational institute. Mr. Caperton speaks about his vision for a bipartisan clean-energy policy in America. The discussion was sponsored...
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