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The Quest to Get Into Class

Community colleges around the country try to accommodate fall's enrollment boom with waiting lists, more adjunct faculty and creative advising.

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Redefining Aid Choices

Survey affirms merit awards serve some needy students, but that says little about whether access for less wealthy is a real priority.

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DC Mayor Loses/ Michelle Rhee’s Future On the Line � Larry Miller's Blog

DC Mayor Loses/ Michelle Rhee’s Future On the Line � Larry Miller's Blog

DC Mayor Loses/ Michelle Rhee’s Future On the Line

by millerlf

Vincent Gray defeated Adrian Fenty last night in the closely watched mayoral race in Washington DC. Michelle Rhee has indicated she might leave under a Gray administration. Gray has been critical of many of her slash and burn education policies. This is a defeat for the predominant “reform” movement in education.

Following is a statement from a DC blogger.

What would happen to Michelle Rhee with Vincent Gray as Mayor?

Despite the call of many of his supporters to replace her as soon as he is elected Mayor, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray was noncommittal the other day when asked what role Michelle Rhee would play in his administration.

“She’s apparently getting married later this year,” Gray said. “Her spouse obviously can’t move here. So the

Web's #1 Source for K12 and Higher Education News and Commentary - EducationNews.org - Hard lesson for Fifth Ward students

Web's #1 Source for K12 and Higher Education News and Commentary - EducationNews.org - Hard lesson for Fifth Ward students

Hard lesson for Fifth Ward students 9.15.10 - Despite a mandate to close, the founder of Benji’s charter school vows to open today for her 550 kids.

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Italian-Americans Want More Affirmative Action at CUNY - NYTimes.com

Italian-Americans Want More Affirmative Action at CUNY - NYTimes.com

Unlikely Group Charges Bias at University

David Goldman for The New York Times

Vincenzo Milione, a researcher at the Calandra Italian American Institute at the City University of New York, is suing CUNY and the institute’s director, saying he was retaliated against for criticizing what he considers the university’s poor record on recruiting Italian-American employees.

By LISA W. FODERARO

Published: September 14, 2010

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For more than 35 years, the City University of New York, one of the nation’s most diverse higher education systems, has quietly struggled with a minority group that says it has been passed over for jobs. In June, members of the group issued a blistering report the size of a phone book. In July, one employee filed a federal discrimination lawsuit, and some state lawmakers are pushing for hearings this fall into what they see as blatant ethnic bias.

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President Obama to welcome U.S. students back to school with speech at Masterman in Philadelphia Tamika Miles is 11, a sixth grader at the prestigious Masterman School. She's a serious girl with two long pigtails, an impressive vocabulary, and a strong belief that Tuesday will be the biggest day of her life so far.

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Danny Westneat | Freshmen overwhelm Garfield | Seattle Times Newspaper

Danny Westneat | Freshmen overwhelm Garfield | Seattle Times Newspaper

Freshmen overwhelm Garfield

That's what they've discovered the hard way this fall at what is clearly Seattle's most desirable high school: Garfield, in the Central Area. So many kids were assigned to the school (300 more than capacity), and so many of those have shown up, that some students have been without full class schedules while officials scramble for extra teachers and space for all the bodies.

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When Seattle went back to neighborhood-based schools recently, unwinding 30 years of experiments with integration and school choice, at the core of it all was a simple guarantee.

If you live near a school, inside a boundary drawn by the district, you can go to that school. No ifs, buts or constitutionally questionable whereases.

It turns out it holds true no matter how many kids show up.

That's what they've discovered the hard way this fall at what is clearly Seattle's most desirable high school: Garfield, in the Central Area. So many kids were assigned to the school (300 more than capacity), and so many of those have shown up, that some students have been without full class schedules while officials scramble for extra teachers and space for all the bodies.

"My son has been going for the first period and hanging around with his friends, not really doing much,"

Shortage of teachers leading to city's failure to provide required bilingual services: state letter

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Privatizing public education: UCLA's Anderson School of Management shouldn't be just for the rich - latimes.com

Privatizing public education: UCLA's Anderson School of Management shouldn't be just for the rich - latimes.com

A plan to save public education by abandoning it

The proposal by UCLA's Anderson School of Management to raise tuition and forgo public funding would cut off access to the less than wealthy and set a dangerous precedent for other public professional schools.

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By Jason Ball and Lincoln Ellis

September 15, 2010

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Understandable as the University of California's precarious budget situation is, raising tuition to the level of private universities for specific programs is unacceptable.

We see problems with both the process and the substance of the drastic proposal to essentially privatize the UCLA Anderson School of Management and charge $50,000 for in-state tuition, as reported on Sept. 9 by The Times.

On the process side, we expect administrators to involve students in the decisions that shape students' lives, especially a decision of this magnitude. Instead, administrators have met behind closed doors and failed to formally include students. Beginning most notably last November, people throughout the state have mobilized to protest these types of top-down proposals, which have been implemented at the expense of students and the public. Jerry Trapnell of the Assn. to Advance

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NBC Education summit: one-sided propaganda (TeacherSabrina) TEACHERSABRINA comments on the NBC Education summit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/education-nation-nbc-news_n_651028.html?show_comment_id=60458215#comment_60458215 "Next, NBC will host a health summit to highlight how unhealthy America is. ...

DC Voters Repudiate Education Deform The prognosticators on CNN like David Gergen and Paul Begala are already shaking their heads and clucking about the smashing of the Fenty/Rhee front for the corporate education machine. Begala is urging the audience to see the big money propaganda ...

Fenty Getting Hammered Unless there are many more white votes to come in than I think there are, I make this a likely deluge for Gray. What do voters think of the Billionaire Boys Club education reform with Rhee at the helm? Here's your answer so far--WaPo has it 69% to ...

Castle Loses Senate Primary in Delaware - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Castle Loses Senate Primary in Delaware - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Castle Loses Senate Primary in Delaware

by Alyson Klein

Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware, a longtime congressman and former governor with expertise in education issues,lost the GOP U.S. Senate nomination tonight to Christine O'Donnell, a tea party-backed marketing and media consultant.

Castle's defeat means that Congress is losing a moderate GOP lawmaker with a long record on, and a lot of interest in, K-12 issues. Folks in Washington saw him as someone who could help the GOP and Democrats