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College aid maze
For low-income applicants to U.S. colleges, April remains the cruelest month. By early April, almost all admission decisions are known.
Sexting scandal at Montgomery County schools
Some female students at Pyle Middle School and Whitman High School in Montgomery County willingly posed for inappropriate pictures and some students sold and bought access to the pictures and videos, resulting in a police investigation, according to a letter sent home to students today. ...Third-grader hacks into Fairfax computers
Half-grown hacker hits Superintendent Jack Dale, others ...
Charter Extension Founded by Linda Darling-Hammond Denied to Low-Scoring Stanford School
4.16.10 - Stanford New School has the best of credentials and focused on academics and students’ emotional and social lives and was persistently a worst-performing school...
Florida Governor Splits With G.O.P. on Teacher Pay
Gov. Charlie Crist’s decision spurred speculation he would abandon the party to run for Senate as an independent. ...Senate effectively kills dropout age bill
FRANKFORT — The Senate dealt a fatal blow Wednesday night to a bill strongly backed by Gov. Steve Beshear and first lady Jane Beshear that would increase the state's dropout age from 16 to 18. ...Texas autism program cuts waiting, costs
Children suspected of having autism sometimes had to wait a year to get evaluated and to be able to afford the care they needed....Gorman expects worst-case; plan for 1,030 layoffs
The worst-case scenario for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools job cuts grew to 1,030 Tuesday, as Superintendent Peter Gorman presented his 2010-11 budget plan to the school board....In Hawaii, anger, arrests over shorter school year
Parents angry about Hawaii’s shortest-in-the-nation school year aren’t giving up on a sit-in at Governor Linda Lingle’s office despite two arrests and more than a dozen trespassing tickets. ...Does Rhee's $34 million surplus exist?
So does the $34 million surplus Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee described to the D.C. Council Tuesday actually exist?...
Jay Mathews: Washington area's top education bloggers
Our favorites were a diverse bunch, with many witty teachers, incisive journalists and droll experts ...Fund Proposed to Prevent Some Teacher Firings
Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, introduced legislation on Wednesday to create a $23 billion jobs fund to prevent teachers from being fired because of budget shortfalls. ...