A company accused of supplying halal burgers containing pork to schools across the city has said independent tests have revealed it has done nothing wrong.

Leicester City Council withdrew a lamb burger supplied to 19 schools by Doncaster-based Paragon Quality Foods last month after it claimed that tests showed up to 50 per cent pork in a sample burger.

Leicester firm ESPO conducted the tests on behalf of the city council.

However, a spokesman for Paragon Quality Foods said today that results from an unnamed independent specialist showed that the burger did not contain any pork.

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Just about everyone has experienced or witnessed a bullying incident during their school-aged years. Whether it was a one-time episode or something that occurred on a continual basis, the issue of bullying is firmly ingrained in most Americans psyche. While many dismiss this type of harassment as a “rite of passage” into adulthood, many educators, businesses and even the president are implementing new safeguards and programs to stop the intimidation factor.

There are no definitive numbers on how many students are bullied each school year, but many estimate that one-third of all students experience some form of harassment.  That estimate, however, may only scratch the surface.

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Dear Mike,

Let me begin by addressing your underlying question as to whether what you and I are proposing is part of the cure or the disease. The belief that the most promising way to tackle poverty requires frequent standardized tests for all students, breaking up the public school monopoly, imposing accountability measures on teachers, and more “efficient” delivery systems is, in my view, “part of the disease.” But let’s lower the tone by changing the dichotomy to a contrast between being “part of the solution” or “part of the problem.”

Thus, the first series of my responses below are an attempt to answer your question about how your views (and mine) stack up on the “problem/solution” continuum.

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A pair of bold proclamations in professional sports perfectly define the double standard in which the right of free speech is viewed in popular culture today. Tim Tebow was often ridiculed for openly sharing his Christian lifestyle and told to keep it to himself. Jason Collins was declared a hero for declaring his homosexuality. What’s worse is that Christians have allowed this to happen.

“Announcing that youre Christian is like announcing that you like cheeseburgers. Sure, there might be one or two people that will look down on you for eating meat, but on the whole, everyone loves cheeseburgers.” This statement, made by a believer, is a common sentiment among Christians today. Too m

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Deborah Meier responds to Fordham Institute’s Michael J. Petrilli today.

The data you present re. the “achievement gap” is consistent with an argument I made against using standardized testing as a barometer 50 years ago. I said (and wrote) that as long as our testing system requires us to rank order we will be tracking income (and wealth), not education. As one becomes less equal, so will the other. Anything else would not meet psychometric standards! The tests are designed by test publishers who, by pre-testing items, can be sure that they’ve got the “right”—reliable and credible—rank order.

Once one concludes, as I did through 50 years of close observation, that the tests are measuring something other than “reading” skill—decoding and restating—our problem looks different. Yes, E.

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Hitting home the age-old message of you are what you eat is this anatomical model with organs made of cauliflower, potatoes and other produce. Title Veggieanatomy, the piece was created by German artist Klaus Weber using vegetables, jesmonite, paint and wood, and measures six-feet tall in height. It was recently shown stateside at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York.