Capseeds Spring 2010

I am infuriated to see what the DOE officials are doing with the $2.4 billion - or approximately $14,000 per student - allocated to our public schools.

There is a discrepancy then of $15,000 to $30,000 per teacher (25 total), which adds up to at the low end of $375,000 extra removed from our budget. Where does this money go and how is it accounted for if it has already been “accounted" for within our school budget?

For example, elected state and federal officials want our students to be proficient in technology, yet we have no money allocated to our school for updated computers. Now the federal government is adding standardized Science testing, yet we have no money allocated in our school for new science books.

He and Mr. Vilsack are both urging farmers to band together and open local cooperatives or mobile slaughter facilities. The Agriculture Department is financing some mobile units and helping to build a regional facility near the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa.

Mr. Galluccio says the state needs more slaughterhouses and hopes to help build one that would be a better fit for the community. “We’re not against slaughterhouses,” Mr. Galluccio said. “But you wouldn’t open up a discotheque next to a church.”

students had lower reading comprehension of scrolling online material than they did of print-like versions.

It is harder to keep track of where information is located within an online document versus the more-apparent page markers in a print-style tex

a new study from Princeton University that suggests high-fructose corn syrup causes more significant weight gain than table sugar.

"The debate about which one is better for you is a false debate, because neither of them is good for you,"

Pepsi recently tried to capitalize on the anxiety surrounding high-fructose corn syrup, stoked partly by food policy critics such as Eric Schlosser and lifestyle gurus including Andrew Weil.