But the comparison also found that existing English standards are "clearly stronger" in California, Indiana and the District of Columbia.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The Cultural District is a fourteen block area of downtown that includes public spaces, art galleries and six major theaters.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The Rotary Club of Navsari operates an eye hospital and nine area eye centers in and around the Navsari District.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

They were part of the city's Green Summer Job Corps, a project of the District Department of the Environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

A United States District Court said intelligent design was not science and could not be separated from religious belief.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

An estimated five thousand protesters known as Red Shirts occupied a three square kilometer area of Bangkok's business district.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

It was amended. The new bill would simply close all places in the District of Columbia where slaves were bought and sold.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Matthew Lukwiya was the medical administrator of Saint Mary's Hospital in the Gulu District of northern Uganda.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

We thought that that would be it." But the day after the fire, the mayor of the District of Columbia, Adrian Fenty,took action.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Yet many people today cannot see the Maze District because it is so difficult to reach.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Clay said there was equal justice in his resolutions ending the slave trade in the District of Columbia and strengthening laws on the return of runaway slaves.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

It said nothing about slavery in the nation's capital, the District of Columbia.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Mr.Henry is an executive director in the Anchorage School District in Alaska.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

It is the only District of Columbia memorial on the National Mall.

VOA: special.2009.05.25