on school reading programs like “Reading Road Trip” from the Baltimore County Public Library’s annual summer reading program.

an independent study done on the Milwaukee Public School system and found that for the 2009-2010 school year in the best case scenario only 40 million bucks is going to have to be cut from the school district budget and in a worse case scenario 100 million is going to have to be cut.

a brand new report out on state exams. They show that scores on state exams have increased consistently since the NCLB bill has been enacted.

They also compared the state test gains to the NAEP exam. They found that most states made a moderate-to-large gain on the state exam even if NAEP gains were not much, were flat or even were declining.

to only raise tuition 2.4% on families of students who earn less than 150,000 thousand. A 4.8% increase on families with higher incomes.

from the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press.

The University of Michigan wants to pull of of this deal by the fall of 2008 is changes are not made with the state of Wisconsin.

The Pioneer Press also reports on this as well.

school district it says that that school district has overspent in each of the past four years.