Small Business Administrator Karen Mills made her Twitter debut yesterday as she and Secretary Arne Duncan hosted an online Q & A responding to questions about how to start a new business, the loan repayment and forgiveness plans available to student l…
Continue Reading →A final version of a new tax break program that would give rebates for donations to voucher programs that provide tuition for students to attend private schools will be hammered out in a six-member legislative committee.
Continue Reading →Published Online: April 15, 2012
Published in Print: April 18, 2012, as Aid to Low-Performing Schools Also a Budget Patch
Pressures may rise once grants run out
By Andrew Brownstein
For the casual visitor, it’s easy to miss that Southeast High Sc…
Continue Reading →PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona school district’s decision to oust the director of a dismantled Mexican-American studies program and a recent segment on a TV comedy show have reignited anger among protesters who took over a school board meeting and accu…
Continue Reading →By Guest Blogger Alyson Klein
Two students with Asberger’s—an autism spectrum disorder that can make it tough to interact in social sitatuations—are heavily featured in “Bully,” the new education shock-you-mentary, opening in wide release on Frid…
Published Online: April 10, 2012
Enrollment in state-funded preschool programs has more than doubled over the last decade—ticking upward even through the recession years—but an accompanying slide in per-child spending in many states is threate…
Continue Reading →Published Online: April 10, 2012
Enrollment in state-funded preschool programs has more than doubled over the last decade—ticking upward even through the recession years—but an accompanying slide in per-child spending in many states is threate…
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Rural Americans have improved their educational attainment during the past 40 years, but the gap between rural and urban areas for residents with college degrees is growing, accordi…
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« Rural Kansas District Values Ed., Outperforms Peers | Main
Rural Americans have improved their educational attainment during the past 40 years, but the gap between rural and urban areas for residents with college degrees is growing, accordi…
Continue Reading →Published Online: April 5, 2012
Phoenix
Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill to expand a year-old school voucher program.
Brewer says in her veto letter that it’s too early to consider bills with costs for the state before a new state budget is appro…