Meningococcal Disease: The Basics Because of concerns over meningococcal disease, five states -- Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, Florida and Pennsylvania -- have laws requiring college freshmen to be vaccinated or sign waivers.
Children are arriving at school hungry, tired, ill and unable to concentrate or learn, as families struggle to provide the basics because of government social and economic policies, a teachers' union claims today.
Some families choose to stop with just the basics because of religious beliefs.
Two-fifths of the army's intake fail basic training because of lack of basic skills.
"People had great difficulty obtaining basic foods because of lack of supply and price hikes.
She believes that not teaching children basic skills because of the risk of injury defies common sense.
Yet it wasn't the Democrats who won so much as the Republicans who lost — at a most basic level, because of demography.
"You saw this over and over — an eagerness among Chinese and Americans to impress one another, yet wildly basic misunderstandings because of language and cultural differences.
"The nation's education system has become obsessed with testing and basic skills because of the requirements of federal law, and that is not healthy," Ms. Cortese and Dr. Ravitch said.
But state officials and outside experts brought in to study the system say it fails in its most basic tasks, because of antiquated facilities, undertrained employees and violence endemic within the walls.
