the local high schools to track down all 925 students that have dropped out of school since January 2008.

a report looking at Indiana students and efforts to improve college access for those students. This is a good read.

They say that in 2004 only 62% Indiana High School grads went to college which is up from only 50% in 1990.

Indiana has the Core 40 diploma requirement which the state say you need in order to do well in college. The requirement includes four years of English, three years of math, three years of science, foreign language, and other classes.

The reports gets into the 21st Century Scholars Program that gives students from low income families the ability to go to college tuition free. The program is set at 185% of poverty level, around 37 grand for a family of four, which I say too low.

They also show six-year college graduation rates which look very poor at some colleges.

with two different briefs looking at the NCLB bill.

The first brief says that 33 states have limited capacity to support low-income schools.

The second brief is on state systems of support for the No Child Left Behind Bill.

are out. They looked at a a total of five schools.

Overall they found students in the KIPP schools doing well academically, but many of the students were dropping out of the KIPP schools looked at before the end of the eighth grade. The researchers found it hard to calculate 7th and 8th grade scores because of that problem.

They also found teachers were not staying long at these schools as well.

that the Pell Grant program may need up yo 6 billion bucks more taxpayer money next year.

The LA Times reports on this high school that is now being run by an outside organization, Green Dot Public Schools. The school has been now changed over to a charter school. They also include a nice video as well.