has a new survey out saying that Colorado funding of colleges is so low that they woiuld 832 million in new funding just to meet average levels of national peers.

are going to get less money this year due to very low enroillment growth.  Growth of 477 students occured out of a projected number of 48,853.

block scheduling for the old school class schedule format.  They are though to let classes out one hour earlier on Wednesday so that teachers can have some professional learning and study the performance of each student that they have.

going to have to wait until next year to find out how well students did on the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests.  The state was supposed to have done by October 31, but the federal government so far has stopped giving them funding yet.

says that community colleges in the state have a high turn-over rate.  50% leave at the end of the first year.  Only 25% that focused on tranfer classes move on to a four year college.
The state has 2.5 million community college students at 110 campuses.  80% of them work while going to college.

wants the state of Virginia to have a voluntary quality-rating system for its preschools.  !2 states at this point of time have such a system in place.