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WASHINGTON–Governors are increasingly expanding education options to help exceed their statewide education goals, according to a new report by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Center for School Change (CSC) at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Katrina has booted at least 372,000 students from classrooms in Louisiana and Mississippi, and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Monday there are no clear answers about who will pay to educate them.Read the Full Story
The chief of the Northwest’s federal disaster response division is defending his background and job qualifications after FEMA’s national director was removed from on-site command of hurricane relief efforts and questioned about his job experience.Read the Full Story
John Pennington, the official in charge of federal disaster response in the Northwest, was a four-term Republican state representative who ran a mom-and-pop coffee company in Cowlitz County when then-Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn helped him get his federal post.Read the Full Story
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Offering relief to college students impacted by Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation to provide additional flexibility to students forced to withdraw from higher education as a result of a natural disaster. The bill, authored by Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and approved unanimously, allows the Secretary of Education […]
Washington, D.C. – The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee under the leadership of its chairman, Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., passed the bill today that governs major student financial aid programs for college, services designed to help high school students prepare for college, aid to institutions of higher learning and aid to improve […]
One week after Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the Gulf Coast in the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, state and local education officials in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and elsewhere were hard at work seeking to ensure students affected by the storm could return to school, and a normal routine, as soon as possible. Read […]
“Road Bill Reflects The Power Of Pork” was the headline over a page-one August 11 article in the Washington Post.Read the Full Story
A graduate student has sued three term-paper Web sites, accusing them of selling one of her papers without her permission. The case could be the first of its kind.Read the Full Story
Piracy is alive and well at UNM, and not the kind that involves eye patches and walking the plank.Read the Full Story
