new parents to take a semester off from teaching with pay. They are still going to have to do all advising duties though.

who wind up using a new CTA card to ride the bus and train system will also wind up getting tracked to see where they go. The Chicago Public School system is doing this to track down truants, but the school district still needs to find out if it is legal to get this data though.

next college in the USA to make SAT and ACT optional when it comes to the college admission process.

is out looking at Catholic schools. They recommend that these schools are affordable for all. They also say that 1,300 of this type of school have closed since 1990.

They look at three cities Wichita, Memphis, and Denver who got help from dioceses.

Wichita had money come out of the pockets of church member salaries. The people behind this report really loved this idea.

Memphis went on a massive attempt to get money from people and businesses to have scholarship money.

Denver went on a marketing campaign.

They also looked at Milwaukee and Washington D.C. that got public support.

Milwaukee has the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program which gives money to students to go to the school of their choosing and the PAVE program just for Catholic schools.

They look at a voucher program used in Washington D.C. as well.

I found this report to be a nice read.

record high amount of college applications at local area colleges. On student they looked at is Akua Abrah who get accepted into nine out of the ten colleges she applied to.

to launch a nationwide chain of outdoor digital movie theaters on high school campuses. The theaters would be used for free educational films and also be used to show IMAX films that the school district can profit on.

I have to say that I like this idea.