Ostensibly due to budget cuts, the previous year the Board of Regents voted to discontinue the last of the optional state language exams.
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Why does a competent citizen have to master a state language?
Morocco's king, Mohammed VI, announced several reforms, including new parliamentary elections, civic and social equality for women, and recognition of the indigenous Berber language as an official state language along with Arabic.
He bragged that Robbins Air Force Base had made it through the latest round of realignments and closures, and attacked Mr Martin for a 1995 vote against making English the official state language.
The official language of the state shall be the Malay language and shall be in such script as may by written law be provided.
His Justice and Development Party, or AKP, also made a number of overtures toward the Kurds, relaxing bans on Kurdish language education, appearing to apologize for past discriminatory policies and launching a state Kurdish-language TV station.
This is part one in a two-part series on the relationship between our current political and economic state and our language.
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After the report came out, districts around the state began devising new language courses.
In 2009, 95% of third-graders at Harlem Success passed the state's English Language Arts exam.
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Also in 2012, about 84% of its eighth-graders met or exceeded state standards for English Language Arts tests, compared with 50% statewide.
The job advertisement, published only in the state-owned Sinhala-language newspaper, drew 178 responses.
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County election officials say they believe such language would violate state law.
Even though languages have not been a priority for the school in the past, he wants to invest in "state of the art" language facilities.
As part of what was described as the "democratic opening, " the Turkish state established a Kurdish-language TV channel for the first time and eased bans on Kurdish language education in schools.
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas, whose mid and west region includes Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, ties the future of Welsh as a living language to the state of the economy in rural Wales.
In 2008, Sorozan succeeded in placing "mutual respect" provisions in labor contracts with the state that say harassment, abusive language and bullying behavior will not be tolerated in the workplace.
The idea behind Lord Mackay's suggestion, he explained, was to impart that health service provision "is the final responsibility of the secretary of state... in ordinary language, 'The buck stops here'".
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It is the most immediate form of musical expression in existence, and the language that we use to state our deepest, truest feelings.
The Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians in California uses funds from its casino to pay for Luiseno language courses at nearby California State University, San Bernardino.
To get this far, Turkey has taken such dramatic steps as abolishing the death penalty, accepting Kurdish as a language in schools, scrapping state security courts, revising the penal code and tightening civilian control over the army.
Mr Obama praised the recent launch of a state-run 24-hour Kurdish-language television channel.
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Brian-Anthony Garrison is a student at NC State University, majoring in English with a language, writing and rhetoric concentration.
He spoke haltingly to Borno state Gov. Kashim Shettima in the Kanuri language of Nigeria's northeast, surrounded by still-frightened villagers.
To learn the language of film must be a state of mind.
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His television channels challenged state broadcasters with lowbrow programmes in the Italian language that appealed to those groups most likely to speak regional dialects.
The Secretary of State, several times, used the same language.
Earlier this year, voters in Missouri and Louisiana also approved amendments banning same-sex marriage, although a judge in Louisiana later struck down that state's measure because of flawed ballot language.
Moreover, properly trained state-level officers, who know the local language and conditions, have a much better counter-insurgency record.
The state-run China Daily said in its Chinese language edition that the country had to learn to balance development with quality of life.
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