Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

not chosen by state legislatures.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

A statement by the Revolutionary Guards, relayed by state media, accuses foreign elements linked to "global arrogance" of being involved.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

The first ever state by state analysis of U.S.bioscience education found a wide disparity among the nation's schools.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Meeting with residents and business owners, and accompanied by state and local officials, the president spent the day visiting oil spill response and coordination centers in Mississippi and Alabama.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Laws vary by state, so U.S.House of Representatives is considering a bill that would allow all former prisoners to vote in federal elections after they have completed their sentences.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

The state-by-state information is not yet complete, but Marc Perry says demographers found a clear trend in population growth.

VOA: special.2011.03.14

Another way the state governments in the South acted against blacks was by refusing to give them the right to vote.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

On Wednesday, Mister Obama marked his one hundredth day by speaking at a school in the state of Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Just this week, an investigation found that the State Department overpaid the company by tens of millions of dollars.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

On a separate issue, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week criticized international efforts by Islamic countries to ban anti-religious speech.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

A short time later,state soldiers were used to break up a strike by railroad workers in New York.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

The effort will help reduce carbon dioxide releases from the Empire State Building by more than one hundred thousand tons a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Fighting between the two sides almost began when a Free State man was killed by a pro-slavery man.

VOA: special.2009.05.07