"Hot" off the Press: The wrath of spring (it is spring, right?) edition

As more K-12 students are being taught through online classes, many wonder if the transition away from traditional classroom lessons is based on quality or a business model: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/education/06online.html. Here's a good quote:

“It’s about getting a piece of the money that goes to public schools,” Ms. Wood said. “The big corporations want to make money off the backs of our children.”

"Dressing in military garb for Halloween? You might get arrested": http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/04/13/dressing-in-military-garb-for-halloween-you-might-get-arrested/.

A federal judge in Canada says the country's medicinal marijuana program is unconstitutional in its current form and has given legislators in Ottawa three months to fix it before weed is effectively legalized: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/973886--pot-laws-ruled-unconstitutional.

Here is a survey of the "World's Radioactive No-Go Zones" from Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,756369,00.html.

Police in an Iowa city have been accused of racially profiling Latinos, but the Iowa Civil Rights Commission is withholding the name of the city: http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/04/13/iowa-civil-rights-panel-wont-identify-city-accused-of-racial-profiling-latinos/.

Critics of MidAmerican's proposal to build a second nuclear power plant in Iowa are questioning the campaign donations the company made last year: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110418/NEWS10/104180313/Political-donations-by-MidAmerican-Energy-rile-critics.

An Arizona bill requiring presidential candidates to prove their US citizenship to be included on ballots has been vetoed by the state's governor: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-arizona-birth-certificate-20110419,0,708216.story.