But the comparison also found that existing English standards are "clearly stronger" in California, Indiana and the District of Columbia.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The Cultural District is a fourteen block area of downtown that includes public spaces, art galleries and six major theaters.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The Rotary Club of Navsari operates an eye hospital and nine area eye centers in and around the Navsari District.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

They were part of the city's Green Summer Job Corps, a project of the District Department of the Environment.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

A United States District Court said intelligent design was not science and could not be separated from religious belief.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

An estimated five thousand protesters known as Red Shirts occupied a three square kilometer area of Bangkok's business district.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

About half of those laid off were teachers, says John Deasy,the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

VOA: special.2011.05.05

Lawyer Paul Achitoff of the organization Earthjustice said: "We do expect to be able to challenge that decision before the district court."

VOA: special.2011.02.15

In two thousand five, a group of high school students brought legal action against a Pennsylvania school district.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

It was amended. The new bill would simply close all places in the District of Columbia where slaves were bought and sold.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

Matthew Lukwiya was the medical administrator of Saint Mary's Hospital in the Gulu District of northern Uganda.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

The round stone structure honors people from the District of Columbia who died in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

We thought that that would be it." But the day after the fire, the mayor of the District of Columbia, Adrian Fenty,took action.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

Yet many people today cannot see the Maze District because it is so difficult to reach.

VOA: special.2009.04.15