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National Journal Online -- Education Experts -- For-Profit Rules Under Discussion

National Journal Online -- Education Experts -- For-Profit Rules Under Discussion
For-Profit Rules Under Discussion The Education Department is putting the finishing touches on new rules governing for-profit colleges, including a controversial proposal to change how students' "gainful employment" after graduation is assessed. Schools that don't make the grade ...
Fawn Johnson responded to For-Profit Rules Under Discussion on September 20, 2010 08:18 AM Thoughtful, Holistic Oversight Needed This guest post is by Fardad Fateri, President and CEO of International Education Corporation, headquartered in Irvine, Calif. He has served as a professor, staff member, administrator, executive and senior ...
Fawn Johnson responded to For-Profit Rules Under Discussion on September 20, 2010 08:16 AM Separate Good From Bad This is a guest post by Willie Gary, a senior partner in the law firm of Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson & Sperando. Career colleges are successfully preparing students for careers in business, information technology, ...
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Lack of funds imperils effort helping students concentrate - Web's #1 Source for K12 and Higher Education News and Commentary - EducationNews.org �������

Lack of funds imperils effort helping students concentrate - Web's #1 Source for K12 and Higher Education News and Commentary - EducationNews.org �������
Lack of funds imperils effort helping students concentrate 9.20.10 - Helms Elementary Principal Theresa Campos gets regular phone calls from parents asking if the "brain guy" is still stationed at her Heights-area school.
Showdown brewing with state over higher education funding 9.20.10 - In the debate over more budget cuts, a theme is emerging from the university system: “Don’t punch a guy with glasses.” The capitol’s reply, at least so far: “Why not?” State spending on higher education has dropped 28 percent from 2007-09, ...
Fort Worth school district principals to be trained as 'turnaround' leaders 9.20.10 - FORT WORTH -- To turn Daggett Middle School around, Principal Erin Deel knew she needed some "visible wins."
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In Investment Votes, UC Skirts Own Review Policy - The Bay Citizen

In Investment Votes, UC Skirts Own Review Policy - The Bay Citizen
BERKELEYSIDE

Berkeley High Counselor Accused of Sex Harrasment

Court issues restraining order but counselor remains on the job
A counselor at Berkeley High School has been issued with a restraining order, following allegations that last year he harassed ......
By LANCE KNOBEL, BERKELEYSIDE
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In Investment Votes, UC Skirts Own Review Policy

University rejects hundreds of investor resolutions on social, environmental issues
The University of California, which prides itself as a leader on social and environmental issues, voted against hundreds of shareholder ......
By TESS TOWNSEND
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THE ISLAND

Half of Alameda Schools Face Closing

All grade levels would be affected, but budget gap still could be $5 million
Alameda Unified Assistant Superintendent Sean McPhetridge delivered news that no parent wants to hear on Tuesday night: The district is ......
By MICHELE ELLSON, THE ISLAND
THE ISLAND

Alameda Board to Ponder School Closings

Budget gaps prompting possible shuttering of both middle schools
Alameda's Board of Education on Tuesday will begin work on a plan to close schools over the next two years ......
By MICHELE ELLSON, THE ISLAND
CRIME

A Safety Net for Kids in the Tenderloin

San Francisco police protect children on their way to school
At 7:20 a.m. Wednesday, Elizabeth Cazares and her 10-year-old daughter, Lesly, stood in front of a liquor store in the ......
By SHOSHANA WALTER
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NJ Spotlight | Getting to the Bottom of the Race to the Top Fiasco

NJ Spotlight | Getting to the Bottom of the Race to the Top Fiasco

Getting to the Bottom of the Race to the Top Fiasco
Senate oversight committee shows it’s willing to play the subpoena card

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By John Mooney, September 20 in Education |Post a Comment

Another week, another legislative hearing on New Jersey’s infamous Race to the Top application.

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And with it comes another pile of public documents -- and some new revelations concerning what almost certainly is the most scrutinized grant bid in New Jersey history.

Following up on the assembly hearings earlier this month, the Senate’s oversight committee on Thursday morning will dig into what went wrong with the state’s failed application for $400 million in federal funds.

Its chairman, Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex), on Friday called for the right to subpoena key state officials and documents, after the state provided her office a box of records related to the application. It was apparently not enough, and she said her committee has been “left with no choice

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D.C. presumptive Mayor Gray should keep Bedford team at Dunbar, Coolidge highs

D.C. presumptive Mayor Gray should keep Bedford team at Dunbar, Coolidge highs

D.C. presumptive Mayor Gray should keep Bedford team at Dunbar, Coolidge highs

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By Jay Mathews
Monday, September 20, 2010

As prospective mayor Vincent C. Gray's education advisers begin to discuss changes in the way Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee ran the D.C. schools, it should quickly become apparent that they should keep their hands off one of Rhee's smartest moves -- handing management of Coolidge and Dunbar high schools to a sharp team of educators from New York.

Lost in all the primary election skirmishing over teacher dismissals and conflicting test score data was this encouraging statistic: Under the Friends of Bedford group, in just its first year here, the portion of students testing proficient or advanced in reading went from 38 to 53.6 percent at Coolidge and from 18.2 to 31.9 percent at Dunbar. No other high school in the city came close to making such gains in a subject in which improvement here has been rare.

The three Bedford partners I discussed this with at their office at Dunbar are a wily bunch. Their leader, George Leonard, has known his partners, Niaka (pronounced Na-KEE-ya) Gaston and Bevon

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New Race to the Top charter school application rules ensnare Queens Phoenix Academy Charter School

New Race to the Top charter school application rules ensnare Queens Phoenix Academy Charter School

New Race to the Top charter school application rules ensnare Queens Phoenix Academy Charter School

BY CLARE TRAPASSO
DAILY NEWS WRITER

Monday, September 20th 2010, 4:00 AM

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Queens will have one less charter school next fall - and the culprit could be the same law designed to increase the number of the controversial institutions statewide.

Organizers of the Phoenix Academy Charter School submitted a 450-page proposal in July to the city to create a K-12 school in western Queens, school officials said. The facility was for foreign-born students struggling to learn English.

But last month, new state regulations kicked in. Suddenly, the city could no longer approve charter schools. And the state, which took over the city's applications, had a different set of guidelines.

Ellenmorris Tiegerman, who was to have been the school's executive director, discovered this the hard way when her application was rejected on Sept. 1.

"If the rules changed, then these applications should have been grandfathered [in]," she



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2010/09/20/2010-09-20_hard_lesson_for_school_new_requirements_may_have_kept_charter_from_approval.html?r=ny_local/education#ixzz104YF9s10
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