is going to open a k-12 charter school, but it is not going to open until 2009.

Mid-Term report is out. The report is on ten states which are High School Honor States. Each of the ten states received grant money.

States getting grant money must improve high school graduation rates, improve college readiness rates, participate in the National Education Data Partnership, and create a longitudinal graduation measurement.

on a A Miami Dade College professor who took a trip to a textbook publisher that was paid for by the textbook publisher. The college ending up selecting the anatomy textbook from the textbook publisher the Miami Dade College professor went to. The price of the book was 178.50.

preschools is out. They say that California just does not have space to house 117,000 preschool students if a universial preschool program is created. The cost to create all of the space needed is under 2.2 billion bucks.

The report says that it would cost around 452 million bucks for space for 23,000 students where the schools have the lowest performing Academic Performance Index scores.

they had a senate hearing on the high cost of college education. At the meeting was finance guru Suzy Orman, Sandy Baum from the College Board, The author of the book Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead by Tamara Draut, and one former Education Department researcher.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on students who are trying to learn a second language. 4 out of ten students are trying to learn English as a second language.