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Activists launch A Day with HIV in America campaign to break down disease stigmas

By | 11.07.11 | 3:56 pm | More from The Florida Independent

With the U.S. Conference on AIDS just three days away, A Day with HIV in America, a project of Positively Aware, seeks to bring together a community of folks who live with HIV, to show their diversity and confront HIV stigmas.

Louisiana school board candidate may have breached state campaign law

By | 11.03.11 | 7:37 pm

Incumbent Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) candidate Chas Roemer appears to have violated state campaign law by accepting a $20,000 donation from a pro-business Political Action Committee.

Michigan GOP-led Senate passes bill that many think will encourage bullying

By | 11.03.11 | 10:54 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

Advocates for a law to prohibit bullying and provide school districts with the tools to address the problem were dealt a stinging rebuke Wednesday morning in the Republican-controlled Michigan Senate.

Anti-Defamation League speaks out against school prayer bill in Florida

By | 11.03.11 | 10:34 am | More from The Florida Independent

The Anti-Defamation League expressed disappointment with yesterday’s vote by the Florida Senate Pre K-12 Education Committee “in favor of an amended version of a divisive and constitutionally defective statewide school prayer bill.”

According to a summary of the bill, it would “authorize district school boards to More…

New Mexico posts gains in key national education assessment

By | 11.02.11 | 4:55 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

New Mexico has bested all but two other states and the District of Columbia on the math portion of the biennial National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), posting improvements among fourth- and eighth-graders.

Iowa Gov. Branstad says ‘states school feds on standards’ in op-ed

By | 11.02.11 | 4:02 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and former North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt say states haven’t been able to wait on Washington, D.C. and are pushing forward with their own education reforms.

Panelists warn of impending battle for independent judiciary

By | 11.02.11 | 3:42 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

A coordinated effort is underway to dismantle judicial merit selection processes across the country, the head of the Iowa ACLU says, threatening the independence of the judicial branch in the Hawkeye State and beyond.

Sen. Nelson wants congressional hearing on state’s new voting rules

By | 11.02.11 | 3:13 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., reiterated his request for a congressional investigation into Florida’s controversial new voting laws on the Senate floor today.

Colorado voters reject new taxes as part of school-funding initiative

By | 11.02.11 | 9:00 am | More from The Colorado Independent

It was the most significant tax measure to appear before any U.S. voters this year and early returns suggest voters wanted nothing to do with it. Colorado’s Proposition 103, which would have marginally raised state income and sales taxes to fund education, was drawing roughly 35 percent support in More…

Florida universities win grant money from EPA to develop sustainable technology

By | 11.01.11 | 10:40 am | More from The Florida Independent

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded seven universities in the southeast — one of which is Daytona’s Embry-Riddle — People, Prosperity and the Planet Phase I grants for the 2011-2012 school year.

According to a press release, the grants will go toward designing “creative solutions to sustainability challenges in the More…