Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the chair will alternative recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer. Five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. There are a lot of talk of cliffs here in our nations capital. We have fiscal cliffs that we faced with the debt ceiling. There was the sequestration cliff. We had obviously the cliff surrounding the government shutdown. This week we face a Homeland Security cliff. Where because our republican friends have been unable to Reach Agreement and they have held hostage the budget of the department of Homeland Security, we face a situation where well either shut down those operations or hopefully people will come to their senses and take a
The majority of Wilkes County school board members appear to favor joining the growing number of school districts defying a 2004 state law that limits how early the school year
Wilkes County Schools’ standardized test scores for all grade levels combined improved again in 2022-23 and continued to rank well among scores reported for all other North Carolina school districts.