May 23, 2012


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$15 million grant for North Carolina New Schools Project 

Program will try to bring new ways of teaching to rural schools ...

Fairfax County (Va.) district will allow video surveillance inside schools 

Cameras will be permitted in cafeterias, hallways and other gathering places...

University of California, Berkeley caps costs for middle-class families 

Tuition and other costs will be no more than 15 percent of salaries for some...

New York City comptroller rejects school custodial service contract 

Yearly cost rises to $65 million from $45 million ...

Study says school failure rate is overstated 

Center on Education Policy looks at No Child Left Behind results...

Los Angeles board tells charters to stop preferential enrollment practice 

Some schools admitted students whose families agreed to provide volunteer work or other services...

Neighborhood objects to plans for new charter school in Chicago 

Part of existing school would be torn down to make way for Christopher House Charter ...

10 new charter schools may open in Hillsborough County, Fla. 

District culled proposals from 27 applications...

Mexican-American group's lawsuit says Texas school funding is inequitable 

It is the 3rd suit filed to challenge Texas school finance...

California cuts not as painful as expected for K-12 schools 

University systems, community colleges also see their spending slashed...

Hedge fund billionaire gives $150 million to Stony Brook University 

Gift is largest ever to a State University of New York institution...

Seattle district's headquarters carries big debt 

System still owes $50 million on facility built in 2001...

Jury awards nearly $1 million to high school student injured by ball hit with aluminum bat 

Pitcher for Norman (Okla.) high school team sustained injuries in 2006...

Are for-profit online charter schools delivering? 

Some struggle academically, but generate profits...

University of Missouri system names new president 

Timothy M Wolfe, longtime IBM executive, will take job Feb. 15...

Valencia College in Orlando, Fla., named top community college 

School is winner of The Aspen Institute's first annual prize for excellence ...

Kentucky schools need billions in repairs 

State report says deficiencies aren't endangering students...

Seattle may ease ban on junk food in vending machines 

Fewer purchases has meant less funding for student groups...

Lack of communication over school site frustrates Los Angeles neighborhood 

District builds school on site where city had spent $600,000 for a park...

Empty schools in Philadelphia have become eyesores 

City controller says buildings are “catastrophes waiting to happen”...

University-owned mansion may become hotel in Cleveland 

Cleveland State University is seeking proposals from developers...

$1 million donated for stadium club at Middle Tennessee State University 

Posthumous gift from booster will pay for construction ...

Some in Newark, N.J., want schools returned to local control 

State took over management of district 16 years ago...

High superintendent turnover in Mississippi 

59 of 150 have left their jobs in last 20 months...

Prosecutors step up truancy fight in Detroit schools 

Wayne County, Mich., officials targeting chronically truant students...

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