and on Thursday starting at 10AM on ESPN they are going to have some of the early round action with ABC picking up coverage from 8-10PM for the final rounds.

On Friday readers I am going to have up my commentary on the Discounted Dreams documentary on the community college system.

in the California area.

The report has one great graph in it. It shows that around 28,000 applications were submitted into California Colleges for nursing programs. That does include students sending in an application to more than one college though. Around 40% though got in for training based on the graph.

I think that clearly show even with the multiple applications that California just does not have the classroom space or even enough nursing teachers to help meet the need for nurses in California.

They do showcase in a chart that around 25% take longer than 2 years to get an associates degree and around 25 do not even graduate at all.

They have around 53% of people responding though at this point of time though.

Some of the results:

65% agree or strongly agree they have enough access to school supplies.

68% have been assigned a mentor in the past three years.

30% have served as a mentor in the past three year with 44% mentoring one teacher.

62% disagree or strongly disagree that classrooms have reasonable classroom sizes.

have an article up on the Secretary of Education defending the NCLB bill in Connecticut.

who started school in the Denver Public School system graduated from high school in 2006.

on the outcry that growing over the 100 million budget cuts that could be coming to the school budget.