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		<title>School choice makes national waves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnconnors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not just an issue for conservatives anymore By Eric Boehm &#124; PA Independent HARRISBURG — Americans like to choose. As consumers, we have an endless number of options when it comes to spending money — we choose everything from the clothes we buy to the colleges we attend. Our grocery stores carry dozens of varieties of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing success: School choice grows amid controversy in Wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By M.D. Kittle &#124; Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — The fire took everything. A community inside a school brought it all back. Jeffrey Robb, development director for Messmer Catholic Schools, home to Milwaukee’s famous school choice voucher program, said the story of Ayanna Murrell, a Messmer High junior, the fire that claimed her family’s home, and the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educational choice in PA has expanded in past 20 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnconnors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Boehm &#124; PA Independent HARRISBURG — School choice is advancing in Pennsylvania, even as a public school voucher plan remains stuck in legislative limbo. As the New Year dawns over the state Capitol, lawmakers and lobbyists are geared up for another fight over the creation of a public school voucher program aimed at providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA school choice advocates push tax credits for corporate scholarships</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnconnors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hannah Hess &#124; Virginia Statehouse News RICHMOND — Parents of children who are struggling in some of Virginia’s most troubled public schools could get more choices, if Republicans win tax breaks for companies that make donations for low-income students to attend private institutions. The plan provides corporations with a tax credit that covers 70 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School choice debate to resume in Kansas education committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnconnors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gene Meyer &#124; Kansas Reporter TOPEKA — Parents get to choose the tax-supported colleges and universities in which to enroll their children, says one longtime advocate of homeschooling. So why are there so few choices for public schools? That&#8217;s the question asked by Jeff Barclay, pastor at Christ Community Church in Lawrence. Only 25 of Kansas&#8217; 1,445 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax credit elevates Iowa’s standing for school choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnconnors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lynn Campbell  &#124;  IowaPolitics.com DES MOINES — Despite having no school voucher program and only seven charter schools, Iowa fares well nationally as a state giving parents options of how to educate their children. &#8220;Iowa is actually viewed as a state with more choices than other states,” said Andrew Campanella, vice president of public affairs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT: Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meghanetisinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenna Wortham New York Times With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia, the legislative battle over two Internet piracy bills has reached an extraordinary moment — a political coming of age for a relatively young and disorganized industry that has largely steered clear of lobbying and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right-to-work bill moves forward in Indiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnconnors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Benjamin Yount &#124; Statehouse News Online INDIANAPOLIS — What could have been a showdown over right-to-work legislation at the Indiana Capitol ended up as an all too normal session day. But make no mistake, the fight over right to work in Indiana is not over. A key committee vote is scheduled Tuesday morning. Indiana’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Poll Shows Romney Leading in NH, Followed by Paul and Huntsman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>meghanetisinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexandria, VA – According to new polls released by Watchdog.org, a project of theFranklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national nonprofit journalism organization, likely GOP voters in New Hampshire are favoring Mitt Romney for the GOP Presidential nomination at 37%, followed by Ron Paul at 19% and Jon Huntsman at 16%. Rick Santorum fell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attacking the Fifth Estate: Bloggers legally belittled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>johnconnors</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jason Stverak &#124; Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity ALEXANDRIA &#8211; Bloggers in Oregon, watch out. That’s because this month an Oregon court ruled that bloggers do not have same protection as the “media.” This ruling emerged when Crystal Cox, a blogger, was accused of defaming Obsidian Finance Group and its co-founder Kevin Padrick [...]]]></description>
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