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Friday, 18th March 2005

New Newsletter, FOIA Notes from EPIC

Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Country Studies--Taiwan
Source: Federal Research Division/Library of Congress
Just Released, Country Profile for Taiwan
29 pages; PDF
See Also: More Country Profiles from FRD
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Freedom of Information Act
Source: EPIC
New Newsletter, EPIC FOIA Notes
See Also: EPIC's New 2005 FOIA Gallery
"...contains highlights and scanned images of some of EPIC's FOIA disclosures from the past year."
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Education--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census
Education Revenues Top $440 Billion; D.C. Spent the Most Per Student, Utah the Least
"Public elementary and secondary education revenues from federal, state and local sources reached $440.3 billion in the United States in 2003, up 4.9 percent from the previous year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Again, the District of Columbia spent the most money per student on this level of education ($13,328) of any state or state equivalent. These findings from the 2003 Annual Survey of Local Government Finances - School Systems show that following the District of Columbia in per-student expenditures were New Jersey ($12,202), New York ($12,140), Connecticut ($10,372) and Vermont ($10,322). Utah spent the lowest amount ($4,860) of any state or state equivalent. Next to Utah, the lowest averages per pupil were in Arizona ($5,672), Mississippi ($5,816), Idaho ($6,034) and Nevada ($6,084). The national average was $8,019."
Summary ||| Direct to Full Text (Select 2003)
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Weather--United States--Outlooks
Source: NOAA/NCDC
Just Released, NOAA Issues 2005 Spring Outlook

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