The Detroit News looks at this high school that has created a freshman wing and have called parents directly in order to help increase the graduation rate.

the 2006 year. It is down 2 percentage points to 85.7%. The article does say that 2007 numbers would be lower due to changes in hot the rate is calculated.

and the George Gund Foundation are going to donate a total of 1.65 million to the Cleveland School district to schools that support specialized high schools that teach stuff like medicine and industrial design.

at smaller colleges in Massachusetts that are starting to move from the New England Area to recruit students.

are not going to have any chance of going onto the Scripps Howard national spelling bee in 2008 because the Star Tribune Newspaper has dumped funding for it. The newspaper is balking at the 99 fee opposed to each school has to pay to be apart of the contest.

This is total travesty!! I hope someone can come up with the small amount of funding necessary to send kids to this competition.

Haverford College is going to be next on the list to dump loans for college students. The college is going to spend and extra 2.6 million to fund this proposal. The article says they have an endowment around 540 million which is far lower than the 6.6 billion for the University Of Pennsylvania.