Suggestions to Fix Higher Education (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | According to Time.com, President Barack Obama has a tough road ahead in convincing colleges and universities to lower tuition rates and increasing infrastructure costs for schools.
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Suggestions to Fix Higher Education
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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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College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan
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Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP)
AP – The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane.
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Student charged in Utah school bomb plot
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Obama ‘putting colleges on notice’ on high tuition (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation’s colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they “jack up tuition” every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.
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Obama ‘putting colleges on notice’ on high tuition
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Obama education reforms advance as Congress falters (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama’s administration is moving ahead in reforming U.S. education without the help of the Congress, and will soon announce which states can opt out of the national education law known as “No Child Left Behind.”
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Obama education reforms advance as Congress falters
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Santorum on defense over votes in Congress (AP)
AP – Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is on the defensive against criticism for his votes supporting President George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” law and his rejection of anti-union legislation.
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Santorum on defense over votes in Congress
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Education law’s promise falls short after 10 years (AP)
AP – The No Child Left Behind education law was cast as a symbol of possibility, offering the promise of improved schools for the nation’s poor and minority children and better prepared students in a competitive world.
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Education law’s promise falls short after 10 years
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7 teens charged with beating classmate unconscious (AP)
AP – Seven central Florida teenagers were arrested after authorities said they punched and kicked a 13-year-old until she was unconscious while on a school bus.
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7 teens charged with beating classmate unconscious
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Charter school benefits from Huntsman focus on NH (AP)
AP – Students at a New Hampshire charter school got a lesson in politics Tuesday from Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman.
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Charter school benefits from Huntsman focus on NH
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Obama to push education plans in Philadelphia stop (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama will highlight his proposals on education in a visit to Philadelphia on Tuesday aimed at bolstering his support in a state that could be important to his re-election prospects in 2012.
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Obama to push education plans in Philadelphia stop
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