The Chicago Sun-Times Reports On More Shoppers….
using the web and other thing such as smartphones to help with back-to-school spending this year.
Archive for August, 2010
The Miami Herald Reports On Two New Audits….
on the FCAT scores given them an A rating, but some superintendents are still not happy with the results.
The Des Moines Register Reports On Gov. Chet Culver Saying….
that the economy will rebound enough in order to increase school spending by 4% for the 2011-2012 school year.
The Arizona Republic Reports On Longview Elementary….
that is going to offer the IB program.
Also the Indy Star has some schools in the local area that are moving to the IB program as well.
The G.A.O Looks At For-Profit-Colleges…
The new report looks a 15 for-profit-schools. They found that 4 colleges encouraged fraudulent practices and that all 15 made deceptive or otherwise questionable statements to GAO’s undercover applicants.
Deceptions included lying on the FAFSA form and lying about how much money you can make per year after you get the degree.
They also looked at the prices for going to a for-profit school and found the for profit school to be higher priced, but in most cases they were SUPER high priced compared to not-profit colleges.
The AP Looks At States That Are Slashing Money….
for Pre-K education due to budget problems.
