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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.
BANGALORE (Reuters) – U.S. for-profit colleges, widely criticized for saddling students with big debts and not fully preparing them for the workplace, are kicking back as they garner public support.
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Determined to energize dispirited Democrats, President Barack Obama told New Mexico voters on Tuesday that Republicans would reverse the progress he’s made on education reform and student aid. Addressing a small group in an Albuquerque family’s front yard, Obama shifted from his recent focus on the economy, which has run headlong into the grim reality of continued high unemployment
Republican Gov. Chris Christie has fired New Jersey’s education chief after the U.S. Department of Education released video that caught the administration in a lie, T he New Jersey Star-Ledger reports .
ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Education Department said Tuesday that nine states and the District of Columbia will get money to reform schools in the second round of the $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” grant competition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The fight to win extra federal funding for states for education jobs is growing fiercer in the U.S.
NEW ORLEANS — For two years as a presidential candidate, Barack Obama addressed educators gathered for the summer conventions of the two national teachers’ unions, and last year both groups rolled out the welcome mat for Education Secretary Arne Duncan . Enlarge This Image C.S. Muncy for The New York Times The National Education Association’s convention began Saturday.
WASHINGTON — The debate in Congress over an $82 billion war spending bill has opened up a war of a different sort — a fierce clash between House Democrats and the Obama White House over two highly sensitive issues: the nation’s huge budget deficit and the lingering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Related White House Memo: Spend or Scrimp
WASHINGTON – The White House has promised to veto a House war funding bill over proposed cuts to education reform programs . The move marks an unusually public clash with Obama ’s top Democratic allies in the House, who proposed cutting $800 million from programs such as the Education Department’s showcase Race to the Top grant initiative.