Some for-profit schools face tougher recruiting restrictions under Obama plan

Some for-profit schools face tougher recruiting restrictions under Obama plan

Some for-profit schools face tougher recruiting restrictions under Obama plan The Obama administration proposed to tighten oversight of the booming for-profit sector of higher education on Tuesday, with rules that aim to curtail aggressive recruiting practices and that require schools to disclose graduation and job-placement ...

Fairfax public schools could get corporate donations through proposed nonprofit Cash-strapped and seeking new sources of revenue, Fairfax County's public school system is again reaching out to the private sector. Public school - Education - Virginia - United States - School Districts

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Footage of Bowie High School beating on YouTube has authorities investigating

by Mike McPhate

Prince George's County authorities are investigating the beating of a student in Bowie High School after video of the assault was posted on Facebook, school officials said Tuesday.

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After Betts, Shaw kids moving on

Last year a group of eighth-graders made a request that Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee took as dramatic evidence of the cultural change Principal Brian Betts was bringing to Shaw Middle School at Garnet-Patterson. They told Rhee that they liked the school so much they wanted to stay on for ninth grade. Rhee granted the unusual wish of about 100 students, and then extended their stay through 10th grade beginning this fall.

But Betts's April 15 murder has apparently brought Shaw's experimental expansion to an end. Rhee spokeswoman Jennifer Calloway said in a statement Tuesday that the school system has decided not to offer

Senior Bertrand Ngampa gives a presentation on an interactive whiteboard at W.T. Woodson High in Fairfax County. (Dayna Smith/Post)