The violence and displacement has disrupted the education of thousands of those children, many of whom are just getting back to the classroom.

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National assessments in core subjects will proceed as planned now that the federal testing program has received additional funding in the current fiscal 2008 budget.

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It's a dead heat presidential election.
Florida Democrats are howling about disenfranchised voters. One candidate demands that every vote be counted in Florida. No way, says the other, decrying efforts to steal an election.
Bush vs. Gore in Florida in 2000? Wrong. Try Clinton vs. Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Conventional in Denver.
Sure, it's unlikely, but […]

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The Buzz is House and Senate budget leaders agreed Wednesday afternoon to cut $300-million from the current fiscal year budget.
And half could come from non-recurring K-12 funds. This at a time when lawmakers are already under the gun for education funding and Amendment 1 cuts are pending.
Details are to emerge over the next few […]

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BRANDON — An 18-year-old Brandon woman died and a man was seriously injured following a two-car crash at W Lumsden Road and Heather Lakes Boulevard tonight.
Monica DeMarco of 1017 Lockmont Drive died at the scene after her 1999 Toyota Corolla collided with an SUV around 8:15 p.m.
A sheriff’s spokeswoman said DeMarco was northbound on […]

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CRYSTAL RIVER -– The endangered manatees that winter in the warm spring waters of Kings Bay in the Crystal River need protection. That was the consensus of dozens of people who came to comment to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service during a public meeting Wednesday night at the Crystal River National Guard Armory.
But in […]

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