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NEWARK, N.J. – A man who pleaded guilty in the execution-style killings of three college students in a New Jersey schoolyard in 2007 is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. Prosecutors say Melvin Jovel will likely spend the rest of his life in prison

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 London School of Economics has denied reports that the university is considering “going private” in response to the coalition government’s announced plans to cut its contribution to university teaching budgets by as much as 40 percent. Related For Exposure, Universities Put Courses on the Web (November 1, 2010) “It’s not true,” Adrian Hall, the school’s secretary, said in a statement circulated to students.

When it opened in 1998, the Shuang Wen Academy was heralded as a new kind of boutique public school, rooted in a mission of cross-cultural understanding. Small and open to children of any background, it was billed as the nation’s first dual-language English-Mandarin public school, teaching fluency in both languages.

DENVER – A judge has set a trial date for a man accused of shooting and wounding two Colorado eighth-graders outside their middle school and is considering a request from prosecutors to order a second mental evaluation for the man.

Parents of preschoolers who are applying to New York’s top private schools are now coming face to face with the test universally known as the E.R.B., a nerve-racking intelligence exam made more so because there is no do-over if the child has a bad day. Enlarge This Image Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Claudia Singleton, center, the mother of a 4-year-old, at a workshop on how New York Cityâ??s top private schools decide which students to admit.

STAMFORD, Conn. – More opportunities for jobs and education reform will help jumpstart Connecticuts urban areas, the state’s gubernatorial candidates told an audience Friday night. In one of their last public forums before next weeks election, Democrat Dan Malloy, Republican Tom Foley and independent candidate Tom Marsh promised a crowd of more than 250 in the auditorium of Stamford High School that the next governor will help spearhead state efforts to add more support for the states minority and poor residents

Students and families already struggling in a tough U.S.