Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013. The Center for American Progress has released a series of reports exploring how high-performing nations organize, manage, and fund their schools and identifying what lessons the United States can learn from around the world about how to better govern and improve our schools. Key findings from[Read More…]
Year: 2013
ACLU Action Launches Campaign to Get Cam and Mitch Hitched on ‘Modern Family’
Supporters Want Marriage Equality on Top TV Comedy NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2013. ACLU Action, a new initiative of the American Civil Liberties Union, launched a campaign today urging “Modern Family’s” producers to script a wedding episode for popular gay characters Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker. The campaign comes as Americans[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan: Former Head of Maywood Housing Authority Guilty in Corruption Case
Official Stole Over $400,000 in Low-Income Housing Vouchers Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013. Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the former head of the Maywood Housing Authority (MHA) pled guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing more than $400,000 in public funds intended to help low-income residents[Read More…]
Illinois Health Department Encourages Healthy Lifestyles during High Blood Pressure Education Month
One-third of all Illinois Adults have High Blood Pressure CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013. Reducing sodium consumption by just 30 percent could prevent more than 100,000 cases of high blood pressure and save more than $200 million in medical costs in Illinois, where cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke remain[Read More…]
AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System Completes Successful Intercept Flight Test
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013. The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, resulting in the intercept of a separating ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean by the Aegis BMD[Read More…]
Remarks by Secretary of State Kerry at the Arctic Council Ministerial Session
Kiruna, Sweden–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2013. Thank you very much, Minister Bildt, and thank you for hosting this important event. I’m pleased to be joined at the table by our senior Arctic official Julia Gourley and I’m pleased also to have Senator from Alaska, Senator Lisa Murkowski, a good friend of mine[Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on the IRS Investigation
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 15, 2013 – 6:21 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just finished speaking with Secretary Lew and senior officials at the Treasury Department to discuss the investigation into IRS personnel who improperly screened conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. And I look forward to taking some[Read More…]
New Book by 2 Roosevelt University Professors Gets Thumbs Up
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013. The full article by Crain’s Chicago Business columnist Greg Hinz is published at: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130427/ISSUE05/304279980/what-is-chicago-planning-not-nearly-enough Is good planning in Chicago as dead as Daniel Burnham? That’s the question effectively posed in a provocative new book by two veteran Chicago observers at Roosevelt University, D. Bradford Hunt and Jon[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Graduate Student Skips PhD to Teach in New Orleans
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–May 16, 2013. Roosevelt University graduate student Natalie Krusemeier has decided that earning her Ph.D. in English can wait. She is doing something now that has far more importance to her and others – teaching underprepared students in New Orleans. “I had an opportunity to go to New Orleans after[Read More…]
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Helps DePaul Celebrate Centennials
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and William Mason, general director emeritus of Lyric Opera Chicago, listen as soprano Patrice Michaels, performs a song during a centennial celebration for DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business, College of Law and School of Music held at the Chicago History Museum. Ginsburg and[Read More…]
