That the Choice Thru Education program with tutoring and classes for the high school equivalency test could run out of money in the next few months do to a computer glitch that caused the grant proposal to not get sent on time.

want an inquiry into overpayments by the U.S. Education Department to college student loan firms for a loan program that guaranteed the firms a 9.5 percent interest rate. The overpayments could total in the hundreds of millions of bucks.

has a new survey of Californians and college.

64% of Californians say you need a college education to succeed while 34% say you do it some other way.

56% of Californians say it is tougher to get a college education than it was 10 years ago.

65% of Californians say that residents that are qualified don’t have the opportunity to attend college.

61% of adults says that college cost is growing faster than other costs.

52% say k-12 education is a big problem.

has a report out calling for an improvement in graduation rates for girls.

The report shows that females are less likely to dropout than males, but they also show that a female that drops out has worse employment rate than a male student that has dropped out.

In one interesting bar chart showcasing the percentage of students leaving because of family reasons in North Carolina. For most grade levels and races it shows an increase of students dropping out from grade level to grade level.

They would like to see more gender based research which I can agree with. They want a graduation rate floor as part of the NCLB AYP rules. I like the idea, but hate the NCLB big time. One other idea out of the many they list that I fully agree with is bigger supports for pregnant students.

is out. They say that 43% of children in the state are not in pre-k classrooms. 30% of the kids live in single parent households. 40% of the kids enrolled are below the poverty rate while 70% of kids are enrolled who have families that are 3 times the poverty rate.

from the Texas Public Policy Foundation are out.

In one short brief they say that Texas has fewer options for students in Texas to attend college so they go to other states. The brief states that if Texas was at the national average 143,000 more Texans a year would be in colleges in Texas.

In another brief they look at the math and science teacher shortage in the state. They say certification rules limit flexibility of principals to hire the most qualified teachers for the classroom. They want more competitive pay with the business world and they would like to see a true alternative certification program that tests what potential teachers already know with a one to two months worth of course work in teacher training.

They also have a brief out schools that do best in teaching math and science. The top schools spend less bucks and also have larger classroom sizes. This PDF link has the the schools that made the list.