Audit assails US education department's monitoring of federal spending on ...
Oct 25, 2012 02:15 AM EDT. AP. LOS ANGELES - An audit of the U.S. Department of Education's division overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars in charter school funding has criticized the office for failing to properly monitor how states spend the money.www.washingtonpost.com
Scott unveils education agenda
Wayne Blanton, the executive director of the Florida School Boards Association, said that like other education-focused groups in the state, school boards got to weigh in with Scott as he studied up for next year's legislative session.www.tallahassee.com
Miami-Dade School District Wins Top National Education Award
One of the nation's top education prizes was won by the Miami-Dade County Public Schools for its dramatic gains in achievements by black and Hispanic students and for raising academic standards across the board.www.hispanicbusiness.com
Candidates on student debt, higher education costs
"You either figure out a way to make education affordable again or you go back to having a vast underclass which is uneducated and even more cut off from opportunity which has social and political implications that are neither pretty nor desirable ...www.cbsnews.com
Education establishment against Amendment 1
As a mother of four children currently enrolled in or graduates of Fulton County Schools, I care deeply about public education in my community and Georgia. I know public education changes lives by giving young people opportunities to fulfill their ...www.macon.com
Chicago Board of Education Oks teacher contract
CHICAGO - The Chicago Board of Education has approved a three-year contract negotiated with the Chicago Teachers Union after a strike.www.cbsnews.com
Apple iPad Mini May Not Be Best For Education, McGraw Hill Exec Says
Amid the suite of new products Apple unveiled alongside the iPad Mini at an event on Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook also brought up Apple's leading role in education, highlighting the fact that the older full-size iPad had already been adopted by 2,500 ...idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com
College Board Report Confirms Higher Education Costs Continue To Climb
Higher education is expensive and getting more so–that's the conclusion of a study by the College Board that were released on Wednesday.maboot.com
In Montgomery's Board of Education race, 6 vie for 3 spots
As the Montgomery County Council continues to question the school system's spending decisions, control over the $2 billion annual operating budget remains one of the top issues for the new Board of Education to be seated after the Nov. 6 election.www.washingtonpost.com
Education ranks as high priority for Jackson County business, civic leaders
Enlarge Bill Starling | bstarling@al.com Todd Trenchard, senior vice president of business development and public relations director for Merchant and Marine Bank, left, talks to a group of local business and civic leaders Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 as his ...blog.gulflive.com
Harvard Allston Education Portal celebrates recent expansion during 5th ...
The Harvard Allston Education Portal celebrated its fifth year of programming and an expansion of its facility and its mission with a community event Tuesday that featured music by Harvard students and a lecture by faculty member Michael Sandel.www.boston.com
Software Eats Education: With $15 Million In Series B Funding, Andreessen ...
But to sum it up, the firm believes in this concept of "software eating the world," which means that more and more businesses and industries are being run on software - from agriculture to education, and the firm is backing those it thinks has the most ...techcrunch.com
Education budget proration unlikely
Senate budget committee Chairman Trip Pittman, left, and House budget committee Chairman Jay Love speak with reporters, students and school officials in Montgomery, Ala.www.tuscaloosanews.com
Education officials will trim course provider list
But Superintendent of Education John White says more restrictive reviews -— including background checks, performance history and ability to deliver what's promised -— probably will shrink the field more.www.theadvertiser.com
State Education Reform Ideas Get Mixed Grades
(Source: Teresa Ristow Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. (MCT) - Southern Oregon University students and Rogue Community College staff dominated a state education forum Wednesday night - criticizing a proposed achievement-based funding model for ...www.loansafe.org
US education endowments post losses in fiscal 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. college and university endowments returned an average loss of 0.3 percent for fiscal 2012, down sharply from a gain of 19.2 percent a year earlier, pressured by volatile international markets during the second quarter of the ...www.reuters.com
NYC Education worker fined $4000
Associated Press. NEW YORK - A Department of Education employee has been fined $4,000 for getting jobs for family members at schools she supervised.online.wsj.com
Gove attacks education in Labour strongholds
Education secretary Michael Gove is writing to MPs in areas where schools are said to be underperforming, demanding that they side with him to open up the education system "to the new providers who can raise standards". According to Gove, up to a 1000 ...www.egovmonitor.com
Finally, a Debate About Education
Romney's best ploy on education was to note how well Massachusetts did while he was governor, and yes, that state's schools were right at the top when he was there, thanks to a hardworking group of teachers and administrators and a predominantly ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Expert: Texas' booming minority population may hurt future earnings without ...
Steve Murdock, former director of the U.S. Census Bureau and ex-state demographer of Texas, said studies are nearly unanimous in concluding that improved education is the key to bolstering earning power - and thus could be a major factor in reversing ...www.foxnews.com
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