Corporation for Public Broadcasting News

NPR, PBS and other public broadcasting outlets are asking taxpayers to fork over $445 million in funding for the next fiscal year.

In case you've forgotten that Philly's public schools are in a state of crisis, Philadelphia Public School Notebook, WHYY/Newsworks, American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would like to remind you .

Association of Public Television Stations president and CEO Patrick Butler took his public broadcasting "defending your life" pitch to a Media Institute crowd Thursday, including making the point that noncom stations were combining facilities and operations to try and better serve their publics.

NPR is hurting financially . According to its new chief executive, Gary Knell, it has seen a sharp downturn in corporate "underwriting" and thus finds itself facing an annual operating deficit.

Three Local Public Broadcasters Join Together to Combat High School Dropout Crisis as Part of "American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen" In response to the national dropout crisis, local public media stations WETA, WAMU and WHUT have joined a significant national public media initiative - "American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen" - made possible by ... (more)

According to press reports , Sen. Jim DeMint and Rep. Doug Lamborn are circulating letters in the Senate and House to rally support for cutting all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its nearly 1,300 local stations.

Senator Jim DeMint and Rep. Doug Lamborn are calling for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be defunded in next year's federal budget.

Hiki No, the nation's first student news network that began in February of last year, translates to "Can Do" in Hawaiian.

Sen. James DeMint is collecting colleague signatures on a letter asking Senate Appropriations Committee and Education Subcommittee leaders to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting .

PBS Series "Latino Americans" Will Chronicle the Latino Experience in the U. S. Over the Last 200 Years; Premieres Fall 2013 PBS Partners with Latino Public Broadcasting to Present the Landmark Project with Funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS PBS Partners with Latino Public Broadcasting to Present the Landmark Project with ... (more)

Nationwide, Latino students face an increased risk of dropping out of school. Forty-one percent of Latinos ages 20 and older do not have a high school diploma, compared to 23 percent of blacks and 14 percent of whites.