Would you be willing to risk a criminal record for the sake of your children’s education? Kelley Williams-Bolar, an Ohio mother of two, did.By using her father’s address to send her daughters to a school in a neighboring, affluent suburb,..

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Ohio Mother Jailed: Sent Kids to Better School

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Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, traveled to Selma, Alabama, yesterday to announce the Department of Education’s new civil rights program.

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Arne Duncan Announces Civil Rights Push in Education

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High Court Reviews Military Funeral Protest Case

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Miami-Dade County’s new sex offender laws has forced the encampment of homeless sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle bridge in Miami-Dade to be shutdown. So, now what? Some of the homeless sex offenders are on short waiting lists for..

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New Sex Offender Laws Force Julia Tuttle Shutdown

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On Tuesday, the California Assembly passed two

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