| To help to improve the discipline of the pupils |
School uniform will be obligatory in DC
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Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic
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Michelle Rhee, chancellor of education of DC. photo: Alvaro Ortiz/Washington hispanic. |
From next school year 2009-2010 the students in the District of Columbia will have to leave the 'jeans' and the blouses or poles that exhibit the armpits and replace his most diverse garments by the only and obligatory uniform.
This measurement answers to a recent politics promulgated by the chancellor of education of the District of Columbia, Michelle Rhee with the intention to establish an order and to promote a better discipline between the pupils.
The new measurement authorizes the directors of the schools so that they establish and implement the use of an obligatory uniform which would consist of khaki pants and pole with neck, as well as also it offers lineaments more detailed on the codes of clothing.
According to the chancellor very eccentric styles will not be allowed, not very exact, not either glasses of the sun, hats, pledges that you exhibit the armpits, not pledges that they allow to see below the clothes. Of equal way there remains prohibited any pledge that takes prominent metals.
Although the new measurement gives authority to the directors to demand the use of the uniform, it does not establish specific sanctions for not expiring with the order. From equal way the students might receive a sanction, but they cannot be expelled, not suspended. Also the schools will be provided with the resources to help those pupils of scarce resources who cannot gain access to the buy of the school uniform.
| In the Last decade they have attacked all kinds of hearths |
They declare war against the thumbtacks in dc
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Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic
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| It does not import if the hearth is modest or luxurious to be threatened by the thumbtacks. Photo: Alvaro Ortiz/Washington hispanic. |
In an attempt for fighting it infects it of thumbtacks that face many hearths and shopping centers in Washington DC, the Department of Health jointly with the Tenants' Association Norwood and the Office of Latin Matters of the Mayor has thrown the campaign “High place to the thumbtacks in DC”.
The intention of the campaign is to educate the community in general, from residents, building managers and business proprietors on the dangers of living embattled and infected for these tiny insects.
The presence of thumbtacks not only is a quality of the buildings in the bad state because also they can be present in the most luxurious constructions if there is not had a suitable system of hygiene and maintenance. But, it is necessary to note down that the majority of buildings that are in the bad state in the cardinal city is infected by these animals turning into a danger for the health of the persons who in them live.
This initiative arose then that the Tenants' Association Norwood was presenting a work program during a public hearing on how developing strategies for the pests control and educating the community.
As part of the campaign realized a community meeting in which specialists and residents of the area took part with the intention of learning on the biology of the thumbtacks, how to fight them, as well as to establish a group of work with the intention of disñar strategies and to implement rules in the war against the thumbtacks.
For more information about the campaign to call to the Division of Rodents of the Department of Health (202 535-1954 or visits the web page www.doh.dc.gov.
| Washington Business Journal grants |
I reward to the excellence for three Hispanics
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Writing
Washington Hispanic
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| The publication Washington Business Journal recognized to several personalities for his leadership in the business and public service; between the prizewinners there was Maria Gómez, of Mary's Center, third of left to der., in the first line; Enrique Carrillo, of Chevy Chase Bank, conscripted, in the first line; and Emilio Pardo, of AARP, quarter of the second line. Ambassador Ronald Kirk, representative of US Trade Representative, was the principal orator of the ceremony that was carried out in the Hotel Oriental Mandarin, in Washington DC. Foto:Cortesía Washington Business Journal. |
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