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Mandated literacy and mathematics instruction is carving out larger and larger portions of instructional time in elementary school classrooms, often at the expense of other topics, including science.
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I’m fairly certain that it’s not news that Virginia prisons are seriously overcrowded and continue to face severe budget shortages. What most people probably do not know, however, is that while our prisons suffer under these conditions, they also continue to pay for the incarceration of foreign, non-U.S. citizen prisoners.
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week.
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In a banner season for the Longwood softball program, the Lancers added another first to its resume by capturing its first NCAA Tournament victory in the Division I era Saturday afternoon at the Knoxville Regional.
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In a ballgame delayed at the outset by an hour and 40 minutes, the Bowie Baysox (19-17) scored the final eight runs to brush past the Richmond Flying Squirrels (13-20) and claim an, 8-4, victory.
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The third-ranked UVA men’s tennis team advanced to the NCAA semifinals for the sixth consecutive year with a 4-0 victory over No. 6 Texas A&M in a quarterfinal match Saturday at the Hurd Tennis Center on the campus of Baylor University.
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The Virginia baseball team finished off a three-game series sweep with an 8-2 victory at North Carolina Saturday afternoon at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C.
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Almost two years ago, we learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting, in bulk, Americans’ telephone records. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, countless telephone metadata records are flowing into the NSA. Since then, the American people have made it clear that we need to rein in our nation’s intelligence-gathering programs and end this assault on civil liberties. I wholeheartedly agree that this program threatens Americans’ civil liberties and privacy.
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The UVA baseball team rolled to a series-clinching 6-2 win over North Carolina Friday night at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Cavaliers (32-19, 14-15 ACC) also sealed a berth in the 2015 ACC Baseball Championship and will play on Tuesday in a play-in game at Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.
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If temperatures continue to rise in the face of human-induced global warming as climatologists expect, some of the world’s most populous areas could become uninhabitable.
