Tag: Ponca
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Class takes a walk in Standing Bear’s footsteps
Via the Journal Star, here, with a h/t to Indianz.com. An expert: NEAR WYMORE — The days must have been hotter, longer than anyone on this pleasant spring morning could begin to imagine. Ryan Christensen knows he could never fully understand what the Poncas experienced on that long march south to Oklahoma from northeastern Nebraska, so…
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ED Week: Congress Approves Budget Deal That Puts Brakes on Sequestration
Here. An excerpt: School districts chafing under the across-the-board federal cuts known as sequestrationare about to get a reprieve: The U.S. Senate gave final approval, on a vote of 64 to 36 Wednesday to a broad budget deal that would ward off the vast majority of the impending cuts to K-12 education spending—and nearly every other federal program—for…