Teacher Ratings: What Are Other Cities Doing?
New York City isn't the only district using student test scores to measure which teachers are most effective. The Obama administration is using federal Race to the Top grants and other funds to...
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Red Cross Responds To NPR/ProPublica Report On Storm Response Inefficiencies
This week, NPR and ProPublica have been reporting on the Red Cross response in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Isaac and other major storms.Multiple internaldocuments obtained by NPR and...
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Red Cross Employee Survey Finds Doubts About Leadership, Ethics
Updated at 12:45 p.m. ET.A new employee survey isn't good news for the American Red Cross. Just 39 percent of employees trust the senior leadership of the organization. And 4 out of 10 employees have...
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Delinquent Mine Fines: 'Clearly Troubling ... More Can Be Done'
A key House Republicancalled today for federal regulators to crack down on mine owners who don't pay fines for safety violations, saying, "Clearly more can be done."Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., the...
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Red Cross Misstates How Donors' Dollars Are Spent
The American Red Cross's CEO, Gail McGovern, has spelled out the organization's promise to donors repeatedly in recent years."Ninety-one cents of every dollar that's donated goes to our services,"...
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Justice Department Vows To Fight States That Violate Indian Child Welfare Law
In the middle of a lengthy speech to Native American tribes last week, Attorney General Eric Holder planted the Justice Department firmly on the side of tribes against states, as the tribes struggle to...
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Senator Asks Red Cross To Explain Its Finances
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is asking the American Red Cross to explain inaccuracies in how it has said it uses public donations, citing questions raised by an NPR and ProPublica...
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Massachusetts Will Limit Practice Of Restraint And Seclusion In Schools
Massachusetts is one of a growing number of states that are putting new restrictions on the practice of restraining and secluding public school students.The techniques — which have been blamed for...
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Regulators Take Action Against Delinquent Mines
Two weeks after NPR and Mine Safety and Health News reported nearly $70 million in delinquent mine safety penalties at more than 4,000 coal and mineral mines, federal regulators suddenly revived a rare...
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Pentagon Identifies World War II Veteran Featured In NPR/ProPublica...
The remains of a World War II soldier who died in a prisoner of war camp in the Philippines – and the subject of a joint NPR/ProPublica investigation last year – have been identified as Pvt. Arthur...
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California Auditing Insurance Company That Took Away Home Health Aide
California's labor department says it will conduct an audit of how Travelers Insurance handled the case of paralyzed worker Joel Ramirez, who was left to fend for himself for months after the company...
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Federal Judge Says South Dakota Officials Violated Native American Families'...
Two of South Dakota's largest tribes won a sweeping victory in federal court that could reverberate for tribes across the country.A federal judge has ruled that the state Department of Social Services,...
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Alabama Bill Would Increase Workers' Comp Benefits For Amputees
This story, reported and written by ProPublica's Michael Grabell, is a follow up to a series by NPR/ProPublica on how states are slashing workers' compensation benefits.Alabama lawmakers have...
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Workers' Comp: CA Bill Would Stop Insurers From Suspending Care
A California Senate committee has approved a bill that directly addresses a problem reported in the ProPublica/NPR investigation of state changes in workers' compensation benefits.The measure sponsored...
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Feds Probe Failure To Collect Mine Safety Penalties After NPR Report
The inspector general of the Labor Department is conducting an audit of the Mine Safety and Health Administration's handling of delinquent mine safety penalties.The audit comes six months after NPR and...
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American Red Cross News Conference In Haiti Grows Heated
Haitian journalists pressed an official from the American Red Cross to explain how the charity spent almost half a billion dollars in the country — but got few answers at a news conference this week at...
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OSHA Launches Program To Protect Nursing Employees
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will announce Thursday that it's going to crack down on hospitals, for the first time ever, to prevent an epidemic of back and arm...
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How NPR Located More Veterans Exposed To Mustard Gas Than The VA
This week, NPR reported that the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to live up to a promise to contact 4,000 veterans who were exposed to mustard gas in secret military experiments. In 1993, the VA...
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Senators Call For VA To Explain Why It Couldn't Find Mustard-Gassed Veterans
A group of 12 U.S. senators is calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to help World War II veterans who were exposed to mustard gas, after an NPR Investigation found the VA broke a decades-old...
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Sen. Grassley Gives Red Cross Deadline To Explain Haiti Spending
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is demanding answers from the American Red Cross on how it spent nearly half a billion dollars in Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake that leveled the...
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