Joey LeMay

Joey LeMay is a former MintPress Staff Writer. He has worked in the newspaper industry as an editor, editorial board member and award-winning editorial writer.

Administrative Leave Practices Can Hit Taxpayers Hard

In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school’s quad in Davis, Calif. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock, File) (MintPress) — It’s an expensive way to say innocent until proven guilty. And it […]

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In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad in Davis, Calif. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock, File)

(MintPress) — It’s an expensive way to say innocent until proven guilty. And it often comes at the expense of taxpayers, which makes administrative leave for public servants a contentious issue. Recently, a St. Paul, Minn. police officer was placed on administrative leave so an investigation could be conducted on an incident which captured St. Paul

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Feeding Into Prison-Industrial Complex: School Spending Declines, Corrections Dept. Funding Increases

In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Students, professors and employees from the University of California’s 10 campuses protest budget cuts that have led to layoffs, furloughs, course reductions and higher fees in Berkeley, Calif.(AP Photo / Russel A. Daniels, file) (MintPress) – A federal study released in 2009, the most recent year of available […]

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In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Students, professors and employees from the University of California's 10 campuses protest budget cuts that have led to layoffs, furloughs, course reductions and higher fees in Berkeley, Calif.(AP Photo / Russel A. Daniels, file)

(MintPress) – A federal study released in 2009, the most recent year of available federal data, found that 1 in 7 American adults did not have the literacy skills necessary to read anything more advanced than a children’s picture book. And according to Scientific Learning, an independent education research group, the United States is the only

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Pressure To Succeed In America Causing Academic Dishonesty

People are led on a tour group at the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered evidence they may have wrongly shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam. Harvard officials on Thursday didn’t release the class […]

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People are led on a tour group at the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

“It’s not that they don’t know right from wrong. It’s that they see themselves as having no choice. They’ll say, ‘It’s not cheating, it’s survival.’” - Denise Clark Pope, Stanford University (MintPress) — Students cheat in school; there’s no real way to dance around that. Statistically, 76 percent of high school students surveyed by Psychology

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As States Cut Education Funds, Achievement Gap Looks More Insurmountable

Ian Moore reads the daily message board in a kindergarten class at the Diloreto Magnet School in New Britain, Conn., Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) (MintPress) — If funding is the gateway toward opportunity in education, then state budgets for the 2013 fiscal year may worry some as 26 states have reduced per-pupil education […]

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Ian Moore reads the daily message board in a kindergarten class at the Diloreto Magnet School in New Britain, Conn., Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

(MintPress) -- If funding is the gateway toward opportunity in education, then state budgets for the 2013 fiscal year may worry some as 26 states have reduced per-pupil education funding to some degree. A recent budgetary analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) found that the cuts put 35 state's school funding at levels

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Political Conventions Aim To Earn Affection of the Middle Class

First Lady Michelle Obama waves to volunteers during a sound check for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (MintPress) – As the middle class becomes harder to define in light of economic devolution, both major political parties have targeted what they feel to be the core […]

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First Lady Michelle Obama waves to volunteers during a sound check for the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

(MintPress) – As the middle class becomes harder to define in light of economic devolution, both major political parties have targeted what they feel to be the core constituency, and simply labeling them the “middle class.” The term acts as a sympathetic catch-all that proves valuable when the name of the game is votes. And it makes sense for

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Analysis: College Grads’ Turn To Military Demonstrates Panic For Social Mobility

Wendy Barranco, a college student and Iraq war veteran looks at a photographic book on Iraq in Pasadena, Calif. Tuesday, March 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (MintPress) — It is no secret in 2012 that times are tough for college graduates. Some are moving home after graduation because they face an uncertain future; student loans […]

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Wendy Barranco, a college student and Iraq war veteran looks at a photographic book on Iraq in Pasadena, Calif. Tuesday, March 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

(MintPress) — It is no secret in 2012 that times are tough for college graduates. Some are moving home after graduation because they face an uncertain future; student loans have been predicted to be the next bubble to burst, similar to that of the housing crisis; and the current job market has students hardly able to find part-time work, let alone

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Newest Marine Whistleblower Reveals Hypocrisy In Administration Policy

This book cover image released by Dutton shows « No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden, » by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. (AP Photo/Dutton, File) (MintPress) – The Navy SEAL who recently released his first-hand account of the Osama bin Laden killing is being investigated by the United States […]

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This book cover image released by Dutton shows "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer. (AP Photo/Dutton, File)

(MintPress) – The Navy SEAL who recently released his first-hand account of the Osama bin Laden killing is being investigated by the United States Department of Defense General Counsel for potentially violating non-disclosure agreements between the military and “Mark Owen,” the SEAL’s pen name. The government’s efforts further illustrate its recent

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