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The Bottom Line
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance It seems like such a simple concept: a calculator on a school’s website that enables prospective...
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Weakened ‘Gainful Employment’ Rules Released
The final “gainful employment” rules released today by the U.S. Department of Education rely more on requiring schools and colleges that offer...
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Promoting Full-Time Attendance among Adults in Community College
MDRC This report by MDRC evaluates a New York City program that is targeted at low-income adults ages 22 to 35 who...
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House Passes Waiver Program for Child Welfare Systems
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend the federal government’s waiver program for child welfare systems, which has...
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Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial-Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students
The Education Trust Students from middle-income families often benefit more from higher education scholarship and grant programs than do the lower income...
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Children in Foster Care Down 22 Percent in Decade
The total number of children in foster care continues to decline – down about 22 percent from 2000 to 2009 – new...
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Six of 10 Texas High School Seniors Have Been Suspended, Expelled or Arrested
More Texas students have been suspended or expelled than have not, according to a forthcoming study of state trends on school discipline....
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Four AmeriCorps Teams Assist with Disaster in Joplin, Mo.
Stephanie Jackson says she never thought she would need the disaster portion of her AmeriCorps leadership training. But since a tornado struck...
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Obama Names Interim Director for CNCS
Robert Velasco II, the chief operating officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, today was designated the interim chief executive...
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For-Profit College Enrollment Grew 50-Fold from 1980 to 2009
The National Center for Education Statistics massive annual report, The Condition of Education, released today focuses on the rise of for-profit postsecondary...
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Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Fourth Amendment Rights in Child Abuse Interviews
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to rule on the constitutional questioned posed by Camreta v. Greene and Alford v. Greene, cases...
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Report: In D.C., Summer is Never the Peak of Juvenile Arrests
A report released today by the group D.C. Lawyers for Youth challenges the widely held belief that notable spikes in juvenile offenses...
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Labor Department Stripped $10 Million from YouthBuild USA, Corps Network
A pair of $10 million grants to two national youth-serving organizations designed to help dropouts and young adult offenders gain marketable skills...
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More Fruits and Vegetables in School Lunches but No New Money for Kitchen Improvements
Many school districts don’t have the money for equipment or training to implement the new dietary guidelines for the national school lunch...
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Bill Introduced to Offer New Child Welfare Waivers
A bill introduced this week would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to issue more waivers to allow state child...
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The Effects of In-State Tuition for Non-Citizens: A Systematic Review of the Evidence
Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University Creating national legislation to implement in-state tuition for non-citizens can have a positive effect on...
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Federal Safe Schools Chief Leaving to Lead Be the Change
Kevin Jennings, currently head of the Education Department’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, has been chosen as the new CEO of...
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Letter from 19 Congressmen Urges Obama to Name a leader at OJJDP
A group of 19 congressmen is pressing the Obama White House to fill the long-vacant post of administrator of the Office of...
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Low-Income Students Are Key to Meeting 2020 College Attainment Goals
Attaining President Barack Obama’s goal of having the highest percentage of college graduates in the world by 2020 can only be attained...
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Q&A: Bryan Samuels, Obama’s Top Child Welfare Appointee
Bryan Samuels, who has served for more than a year now as President Barack Obama’s Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth...
