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CHICAGO (Reuters) – A group of Kansas public school districts filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the state has again unconstitutionally short-changed students. The lawsuit alleges that the state failed to provide sufficient money to comply with a funding plan that resulted from a previous lawsuit that was settled in 2006, according to a statement from the districts’ lawyers. “While the court-approved plan called for $755 million in new funding, the legislature and governor have thus far cut over $303 million from the schools,” the statement said
Starting next year, for-profit schools, including some of the nation’s biggest online colleges–like the University of Phoenix , Kaplan University , and Strayer University –will have to provide graduation rate and job placement figures to new students and applicants, the Department of Education has ordered. That’s a sample of more than a dozen reforms the government will impose on for-profit schools beginning July 1, 2011.
Starting next year, for-profit schools, including some of the nation’s biggest online colleges–like the University of Phoenix , Kaplan University , and Strayer University –will have to provide graduation rate and job placement figures to new students and applicants, the Department of Education has ordered. That’s a sample of more than a dozen reforms the government will impose on for-profit schools beginning July 1, 2011.
The New York City Department of Education said Thursday that up to 47 schools could be closed for poor performance, a huge increase from previous years if all remain on the chopping block. In the eight years since Mayor Michael R.
A student at Emory University told a fellow reveler at a fraternity party early Saturday morning that he was gay.
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NEW YORK – Obama’s ambitious education agenda is in peril, as his allies face firing at the polls in November. Dana Goldstein on the shaky state of school reform.
Charter schools are all the rage these days.
Correction Appended With Michelle Rhee ’s decision to resign Wednesday as the Washington schools chancellor, the movement to shake up the nation’s public schools is losing perhaps its most visible leader. Enlarge This Image Alex Wong/Getty Images At a briefing, from right, Michelle Rhee, the departing chief of the Washington schools; Kaya Henderson, interim chancellor; Vincent Gray, likely the next mayor; and Mayor Adrian Fenty