Maria Danilova, Author at Valley News

FILE - In this June 5, 2018 file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing in Washington. The dramatic Senate testimony by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford comes as DeVos considers new guidelines that could drastically change the way allegations of sexual violence are investigated on college campuses. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Kavanaugh Case Unfolds as DeVos Readies Sexual Assault Rule

by Maria Danilova Associated PressSeptember 30, 2018

Washington — Choking back tears, she testified that he sexually assaulted her. Defensive and angry and choking back tears, he swore that he did not.The dramatic Senate testimony last week by Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett…

Frank Brogan, Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education speaks to the Associated Press in his office at the Education Department in Washington, Thursday, August 30, 2018. Brogan said that a federal panel on school safety convened after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, will suggest best practices in the spheres of mental health, security equipment and arming staff. (AP Photo/Maria Danilova)

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Panel: Feds Should Buy Schools Guns

by Maria Danilova Associated PressAugust 31, 2018

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The Justice Department has sided with Asian-American students suing Harvard University over the Ivy League school's consideration of race in its admissions policy. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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Harvard Accused of ‘Racial Balancing’

by Maria Danilova Associated Press, and Collin Binkley And Eric Tucker Associated PressAugust 30, 2018

Anthony Guyton, dean of students at Washington Leadership Academy, hugs Indiae Gill, right, as she and other students arrive in the morning at the school in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. The school specializes in taking a personalized approach to community and learning. The school utilizes "personalized learning," an approach that uses software, data and constant monitoring of student progress to adapt teaching to each child's strengths, weaknesses, interests and goals and enable them to master topics at their own speed. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Mixing Technology With Teaching

by Maria Danilova Associated PressSeptember 3, 2017

In this photograph taken on Thursday, April 13, 2017, Connor Mitchell, right, works on a computer at a cafe in San Francisco. With college costs rising steadily and with more courses available online for free, some observers are beginning to question the need for a traditional college education that may include lectures on Greek philosophy but burden students with massive debt. Mitchell's university classes take place online through Minerva, he doesn't have any exams and he studies in a different country every year. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

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Alternative Colleges

by Maria Danilova Associated PressMay 8, 2017

In this photo taken Jan. 26, 2016, the empty playground at Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Mo. Justice Neil Gorsuch's first week hearing Supreme Court arguments features a case that's giving school choice advocates hope for an easier use of public money for private, religious schools in dozens of states. The long-delayed argument Wednesday, April 19, 2017, deals with whether Missouri should pay for a soft surface at the church playground. (Annaliese Nurnberg/Missourian via AP)

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Court to Hear Church-State Case With Gorsuch

by Mark Sherman Associated Press, and Maria Danilova Associated PressApril 16, 2017

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2017 file photo, Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. DeVos bid to become education secretary could be in trouble. Two Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, announced their opposition to DeVos in speeches on the Senate floor Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Ed. Pick DeVos Steps Closer to Confirmation As Education Secretary

by Maria Danilova Associated PressFebruary 3, 2017

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 30, 2015 file photo, People stand amid wreckage of a vehicle at the site of a car bomb attack near a military hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The World Health Organization says nearly 1,000 people have been killed worldwide in attacks on medical facilities in conflicts over the past two years in violation of humanitarian norms. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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WHO: 1,000 KilledIn Hospital Attacks

by Maria Danilova Associated PressMay 27, 2016

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, accompanied by International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Chair, Bank of Mexico Governor Agustín Carstens, speaks during a news conference after the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) conference at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington, Saturday, April 16, 2016. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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IMF Pledges Forceful Response

by Martin Crutsinger Associated Press, and Maria Danilova Associated PressApril 17, 2016

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Kavanaugh Case Unfolds as DeVos Readies Sexual Assault Rule

Panel: Feds Should Buy Schools Guns

Harvard Accused of ‘Racial Balancing’

Mixing Technology With Teaching

Alternative Colleges

Court to Hear Church-State Case With Gorsuch

Ed. Pick DeVos Steps Closer to Confirmation As Education Secretary

WHO: 1,000 KilledIn Hospital Attacks

IMF Pledges Forceful Response

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