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...Montana school officials were sympathetic about Illinois' predicament, but quickly distanced themselves from the storm of errors and incompetencies that characterized their Midwestern counterpart. "We didn't have any assessments aligned to our standards prior to No Child Left Behind, so we we've had to build our tests from scratch," said Joe Lamson, communications director for the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Because 2006 was the first testing year that required assessments for every grade from third through eighth, Montana set a generous mid-January deadline to process its results. In 2005, only students in fourth, eighth and 10th...
...brief span of her lifetime, Daniels has watched pediatric-AIDS treatments improve significantly. When she was an infant, her adoptive mother Maryann had to wake her up at 4 a.m. to administer the first of four daily doses. Today the blond, blue-eyed girl, who looks like any active Midwestern teenager, has to take her medications only once a day. "Most of the time, I don't even realize I have HIV," she says...
...That’s That,” and, along with it, an important question: why the hell is the Doggfather in Chi-town? Snoop doesn’t seem to have an answer. He looks too stoned to even care. But there are some possible explanations for his Midwestern sojourn. The most obvious gloss? R. Kelly kidnapped him. He’s the one driving the Phantom around the Loop; Snoop’s eyes look more than a little glazed over, and does anyone doubt that everyone’s favorite peddler of sex weed knows...
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election
...Politics is Local in Ohio Republican incumbent Deborah Pryce faces an uphill battle in her bellwether midwestern district, a clear sign that this is a very different kind of midterm election