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• Use by date for schools?

  
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  This week I’m in South Africa for the second part of the CSCLeaders conference. While en route to Johannesburg, I had time to think about whether schools have passed their use by date.  And if so, where do we go from here?  I don’t believe the answer lies in dissolving or deconstructing schools but rather ...
  5 days ago

• Storify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup

  
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  Tuesday and Wednesday, the Senate HELP Committee convened to mark up Chairman Tom Harkins (D-IA) bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. @NewAmericaEds Anne Hyslop and Conor Williams live-Tweeted, and weve collected some of the main takeaways here, ICYMI. [<a ...
  5 days ago

• Storify: Senate HELP Committee ESEA Markup

  
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  6 days ago

• What Reading 900+ Comments Tells Us About the Coming Gainful Employment Re-Regulation

  
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  Circle September 9 on your calendars. Thats the date according to a Federal Register notice published yesterday that the Department of Education will bring together a committee to develop new regulations defining gainful employment. While it had been clear since a notice published in mid-May that the Department ...
  1 week ago

• English Language Learners in Sen. Alexanders Every Child Ready for College or Career Act

  
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  Last week was a big week for American education policy watchers—we received not one, not two, but three new ESEA reauthorization bills. We’ve already discussed  Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA), so it’s time to take a look at the  Every Child Ready for College or ...
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• Sen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act, Title III

  
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  Now that my colleagues Anne Hyslop and Clare McCann have dug into the changes that Senator Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA)  proposes  for Title I  and Title II ( here  and here ), it’s my turn to take a look at the bill’s potential effects on English language learners ...
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• Harkin, Alexander, and Waivers: Your ESEA Markup Cheat Sheet

  
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  Tomorrow morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will markup the Strengthening America’s Schools Act , the latest ESEA reauthorization proposal from Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA).  Ed Money Watch  and Early Ed Watch have already recapped many of the changes proposed to ...
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• How to Pay Off Student Loans When Youre Totally Out of Luck

  
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  Filed under: Student Loans , College Corbis, Jamie Grill America is in full-on student loan damage control mode. Faced with a $1 trillion student debt hole and college graduates entering the job market already $27,000 in the red, lawmakers are butting heads over the right way to give borrowers some much-needed ...
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• From the “It could happen, but it won’t” department

  
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  I suppose it could be the case that Texas could get federal pre-K funds , but nobody really expects that to happen, right? Texas could get an estimated $308 million in grants to fund one year of early childhood education if the state participates in President Barack Obama’s proposal to expand access to ...
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• Harkin Bill Reforms Teacher and Principal Programs

  
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  Earlier this week, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA). We profiled its major changes here , and a few significant mentions for early childhood education here . Our sister blog, Ed Money Watch , wrote about the Title II teacher and principal provisions today (for ...
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• Teachers and Principals in Senator Harkin’s NCLB Reauthorization Plan

  
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  In many ways, the latest reauthorization effort from Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)–the Strengthening America’s Schools Act (SASA)–reads like an endorsement of the administration’s NCLB flexibility plan. States that have received NCLB waivers would be able to continue with those plans in most respects. What’s more, ...
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• Feds agree with Nesbitt, House members, dismiss ‘mascot’ complaint by state agency

  
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  State Rep. Aric Nesbitt has commended the U.S. Department of Education for dismissing a complaint filed by the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) that sought to prohibit the use of American Indian mascots, nicknames and slogans in the state’s K-12 schools. “While I’m relieved the federal government was ...
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• First Look: Sen. Harkin’s Strengthening America’s Schools Act

  
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  Yesterday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released yet another attempt to reauthorize No Child Left Behind: the Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013 (SASA). NCLB, due for a Congressional rewrite since 2007, has few remaining fans. But all ...
  2 weeks ago

• Student loan consolidation rates – Financial Aid Glossary

  
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  US News and World Report – Consolidation Joining or combining into one. The U.S. Department of Education’s website on consolidation can To calculate the maximum amount of your PLUS loan, take the college’s annual Cost of Attendance and more>>> MSNBC – As a fresh crop of college graduates ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Report Explores Federal Opportunities to Promote Data in Classrooms

  
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  Today, the New America Foundations Education Policy Program released a new report, Promoting Data in the Classroom: Innovative State Models and Missed Opportunities . Please click here to read the report.   Over the past decade, states and school districts across the United States have collected huge amounts of ...
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• West Side Education Activists Plan New Strategy To Fight School Closings

  
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  West Side education activists say they have a new tactic to stop school closings in Chicago. The plan involves filing stacks of parent complaints with the U.S. Department of Educations Office for Civil Rights. The strategy is centered around the adverse affects the school closings will have on disabled and ...
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• House Proposes Increase to Defense Spending in 2014 – at Expense of Education Spending

  
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  Last week, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee circulated a proposal that would shift fiscal year 2014 funding from health care, job training, and education programs to military and national security programs. (Fiscal year 2014 starts October 1, 2013.) Just how big of a hit does that mean for education ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dallas woman charged with fraud for pocketing student financial aid and dropping out of colleges

  
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  … When Sussette Sheree Timmons, of Dallas, enrolled in several online colleges, she had no intention of becoming educated, federal authorities said. Timmons, 30, instead kept the financial aid she applied for and withdrew from the colleges and universities, which offered “distance learning” programs on ...
  3 weeks ago

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