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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.
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
The Higher Calling of the Law : “Serve your clients ably,” Secretary Duncan said at an American Bar Association meeting. “But respond to the higher calling of the law to address injustice and inequality.”
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. – Teachers who were fired and ultimately rehired in a dispute that focused national debate over education reform have returned to their Rhode Island classrooms amid hopes that changes they agreed to will help improve student performance at their persistently troubled high school
DES MOINES, Wash. (AP) — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is urging Congress to act soon to increase education funding because cash-strapped states can’t wait until the fall to determine if they must lay off thousands of teachers.
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.
The Education Department said Tuesday that it had split off and delayed a decision on the most controversial part of proposed new student-aid regulations — the treatment of for-profit college programs whose graduates do not earn enough to repay their loans.