Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The sonic boom heard over Park Forest recently had nothing to do with US Air Force military aircraft. It was one of the many after effects following the release of the Prairie State Achievement {PSAE} Test Scores, which showed soaring improvements from Rich East students. Over the[Read More…]
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan Designates 314 Schools as 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools
URL to list of Blue Ribbon Schools updated at 9:20 p.m. on September 15 Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2009. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced 314 schools as 2009 National Blue Ribbon Schools. Secretary Duncan was joined by Maryland State Superintendent Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick, Montgomery County Board of[Read More…]
Uncertainty About Health Care Increase Among Seniors and Young Adults
Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–September 15, 2009. With intense debate and activism at town hall meetings across the nation last month, Americans’ confidence in their health insurance coverage and ability to access to health care dropped slightly in August. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index) fell 1.1[Read More…]
Michelle Malkin and the Anatomy of the 2 Million Protester Lie
Commentary by Eric Boehlert Blame it on a tweet. It turns out that’s what kicked off the right-wing blogosphere’s comically inept misinformation campaign last weekend to try to swell the size of Saturday’s anti-Obama protest in the nation’s capital, to jack the crowd size up to the wildly inflated —[Read More…]
Majority of Physicians Support Health Reform that Includes Both Public and Private Insurance Options
Princeton, NJ–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2009. A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) study published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine shows that a majority of physicians (63 percent) support a health reform proposal that includes both a public option and traditional private insurance. If the additional 10 percent of doctors who[Read More…]
Gov. Quinn Announces ‘Real World Design Challenge’ Partnership
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today announced that Illinois will participate in a national education initiative that puts high school students alongside industry experts to gain engineering experience by developing a solution to a proposed challenge. Governor Quinn made the announcement during the iBIO Institute’s launch of Finding Your[Read More…]
Student Loan Default Rates Increase
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 14, 2009. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that the FY 2007 national student loan cohort default rate increased to 6.7 percent, up from the FY 2006 rate of 5.2 percent. The rate announced today is a snapshot in time, representing the cohort of borrowers whose[Read More…]
Nature Photographer Presents Perfect Pictures at GSU
University Park , IL–(ENEWSPF)– Noted nature photographer, Mel Katz of Chicago will discuss how to visualize a picture and take a better photograph at a discussion on September 30, from 6 to 7 p.m., in the University Library at Governors State University. “The Nature of Photography” presentation will center on what[Read More…]
School District 163 to Take Up Personnel Matters After Budget Hearing
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Board of Education for School District 163 will meet in Budget Hearing/Regular Session, Monday, September 14, 2009 at the District Office, 242 South Orchard Drive, Park Forest, Illinois. The Budget Hearing will be held in the Board Room at 8:00 p.m. The Regular Session will be[Read More…]
Domestic Call Ends With Arrest Over Remington 870 Shotgun
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Police were dispatched to a residence in the first block of Indianwood Boulevard on September 7 at 5:22 a.m. An unidentified male subject called 911 and related that he needed police at that residence, and that a female subject in the residence had a shotgun. When police[Read More…]
