Some colleges cut tuition, hasten graduation (Reuters)
Reuters – Even before President Barack Obama announced plans last month to push colleges to improve affordability, a number of schools beat him to the punch by lowering tuition and helping students graduate in fewer semesters.
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Sallie Mae will credit $50 fee to suspend payments (AP)
AP – Private student lender Sallie Mae is changing how it handles a fee it charges struggling borrowers who seek to temporarily suspend payments.
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Stomach illness strikes 300 San Francisco students (Reuters)
Reuters – A Jesuit high school in San Francisco was closed for the rest of the week on Wednesday after about 300 students and 30 faculty were stricken by a stomach ailment marked by nausea and vomiting, officials there said.
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Suspect in Utah school bomb plot charged (AP)
AP – Authorities on Tuesday charged a 16-year-old boy with a felony in what they say was a plot to detonate a bomb at a Utah high school.
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Charter Schools — Unsafe Pressure-Release Valves We Don’t Need (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Sarah Butrymowicz on Time.com reports about myriad difficulties facing charter schools and the families of their students when those schools are forced to close. Charter schools are defined in as schools that “get public funds but operate without usual bureaucratic constraints.” The purpose, to be sure, is noble: Help students who are not thriving in traditional public schools pursue academic success in smaller, more supportive environments.
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College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan (AP)
AP – Public university presidents facing ever-increasing state budget cuts are raising concerns about President Barack Obama’s plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition prices or face losing federal dollars.
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Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log (AP)
AP – The state’s largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.
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Obama pushes colleges to keep tuition under control (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama, appearing before thousands of cheering students at the University of Michigan, touted his plan on Friday to reward colleges that keep their tuition under control with more federal aid as he makes school affordability a top election-year priority.
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Dem NC governor faced tough re-election fight (AP)
AP – Gov. Beverly Perdue said Thursday she will not seek re-election because she fears a fight with Republicans over public education would become too political. But she entered the election year with some baggage: a campaign finance investigation, sagging poll numbers and worries from fellow Democrats she would drag them down in a key battleground state for President Barack Obama.
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New Illinois Law Requires More Transparency of School Performance (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – According to the Chicago Sun-Times, a bill signed into law by Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday changes the amount of information given to parents on how schools rank in terms graduation rates, standardized test scores, teacher performance and more. These more detailed so-called “report cards” will be available to the public beginning next year with the goal of offering more transparency of the state education system.
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