For-Profit Education Stocks Rise as GOP Opposes Tighter Rules - Bloomberg

For-Profit Education Stocks Rise as GOP Opposes Tighter Rules - Bloomberg

For-Profit Education Stocks Rise as GOP Opposes Tighter Rules

By Esmé E. Deprez and John Lauerman - Dec 10, 2010 2:24 PM PT

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Representative John Kline, the Republican who will head the House Education Committee, said he opposes tighter rules for the for-profit education industry, sending company shares higher.

“I would push back really hard against a bill that might come out of Chairman Harkin’s committee,” Kline, of Minnesota, told Reuters, referring to Senator Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who heads the Senate education committee. Harkin has commissioned a government probe of for-profit colleges and held hearings on their sales tactics, use of government funds and program quality.

A measure of 13 education company stocks advanced 2.6 percent at 4 p.m. New York time.

Peter Zucker: Open Letter to Bill Gates

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In the December 6, 2010 issue of Newsweek, the seemingly and suddenly expert on education Bill Gates wowed us with his convoluted expertise on education. Gates in an article written by "journalist" Jonathan Alter lamented that teacher tenure is a "quality killer." Quality how so Bill? I think it is time that Bill, and others of his ilk get, pardon the pun, schooled on tenure.

Tenure is no way, no how, guarantees a job for life. Only justices on the Supreme Court are guaranteed such a service. What tenure does guarantee is that a teacher, is protected against the whims of a principal, and the promise of due processes. I would hazard to guess that as an upstanding American and a supporter of the United States Constitution, Bill would be at the forefront of protecting the rights of not only teachers, but also all hard working Americans.

Tenure was enacted to prevent a teacher from being terminated for being pregnant (in fact I knew of a principal who bemoaned a female colleague once with the comment, "why didn't you use a

California public schools must comply with physical education law, appeals court rules - latimes.com

California public schools must comply with physical education law, appeals court rules - latimes.com

Appeals court rules that California public schools must comply with physical education law

Schools will have to provide a certain amount of PE for elementary, middle and high schoolers (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

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By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times

December 10, 2010, 5:25 p.m.

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There's no slacking off now for school kids -- the California Court of Appeal has ruled that public elementary schools must provide 200 minutes of physical education every 10 days (an average 20 minutes a day), in compliance with state laws. For middle and high schools, that number bumps up to an average 40 minutes a day.

The ruling overturns a Sacramento trial court decision that the law was not legally enforceable, and that parents could not enforce the law. A parent in the Auburn Unified School District had sued the