that only 50% of high school students graduate on time which is up from the 47% number last year. They have a link up listing all the graduation rates for the whole entire state.

The Syracuse Post-Standard also reports on this news.

Andrew Cuomo says that the Education Department is lax on regulating the student loan industry and that more criminal charges could come.

The Washington Post also reports on this meeting.

requiring that students are going to have to pass a physical fitness exam in order for them to get into a University.

I think this is going overboard.

in the third and fourth grade along with those same students in 13 other Latin American countries were given math and language exams by the UNESCO company. The UNESCO company found that the low-income students from Cuba outscored most upper-middle class students in the area.

lawmakers are pushing ahead with a plan that will charge some students more. Students getting Bright Futures scholarships will have to pay as much as 1 grand to go to college. The amount of people getting that scholarship has ballooned.

2007 FCAT scores are out. The article says that Broward county students did better than the state average on the writing portion of the exam.