Hard-Pressed Parents Fall Behind on Tuition
The glossy brochure was mailed late last year to the parents of students at 1,500 colleges and private schools.
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Online school seeks local students
RACINE — Area residents will be introduced to a new type of charter school Tuesday evening, when representatives of an organization known as Wisconsin Connections Academy hold an open house at the Racine Public Library at 7 p.m. The group is setting up a virtual school and is seeking a charter from the Appleton Area […]
Online classroom gives failing students another chance
PORT CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte County School District needed a low-cost way to remediate high school students.
Give virtual school a chance
By: Sam Houston, Ed. D., former superintendent of Mooresville schools and former executive director of the N.C. Standards and Accountability Commission.
Allen and Baldacci Criticize Bush Budget Plan to Cut Already-Approved Education and Research Projects in Maine
Portland and Bangor- “We object to President Bush’s proposal to take $3 million of vital education and research funding away from Maine in order to pay for other education initiatives,” U.S. Representatives Tom Allen and John Baldacci said today.
FCC seeks comment on eRate rules
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has initiated a review process of the rules and regulations that govern the eRate, the $2.25 billion program that provides discounts on telecommunications services and internet access to the nation’s schools and libraries.
Bush seeks to scrap community tech grant program
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – The Bush Administration on Monday proposed scrapping a program that handed out $42.8 million in 2001 to help state and local governments and nonprofit groups tap into the Internet and other high-tech networks.
Nanobiotechnology Center
Nanobiotechnology is an emerging area of scientific and technological opportunity. We will apply the tools and processes of nano-microfabrication to build devices for studying biosystems and we will also learn from biology how to create better micro-nanoscale devices. The Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC), a National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Center is characterized by its highly […]
Funding for distance learning may not go the distance in N.J.
The use of technology in classrooms has grown quickly in New Jersey, largely due to dedicated state aid over the last five years – about $40 per student, some $59 million for 2001-2002. Funds are available to both public and private schools. But the program ends this year, and could easily fall victim to the […]