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• Ohio students behind on tabs get cheese sandwiches (AP)
• US education chief meets NYC's future chancellor (AP)
• Wyoming reaches settlement over troubled PAWS test (AP)
• 730 US schools trying to reinvent themselves (AP)
• Is the Golden Age of Education Spending Finally Over? (Time.com)
• NACAC Issues More Results From College Rankings Report (U.S. News & World Report)
• Poll: Education backed, but not new school taxes (AP)
• Feds: Va Tech violated law during 2007 shootings (AP)
• Veteran money floods for-profit schools: U.S. senator (Reuters)
• How the poll was conducted (AP)

Ohio students behind on tabs get cheese sandwiches (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 05:22 PM PST AP - An Ohio school district facing a $225,000 deficit says students behind on their lunch bills are being served cheese sandwiches until they've paid up.

US education chief meets NYC's future chancellor (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 05:01 PM PST AP - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that incoming New York City schools Chancellor Cathie Black "has the potential to be a fantastic leader" and he will do everything he can to support her.

Wyoming reaches settlement over troubled PAWS test (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 03:49 PM PST AP - After months of negotiations, the Wyoming Department of Education has reached a settlement with a testing company over technical problems that plagued the state's student assessment exam this year, a state education official said.

730 US schools trying to reinvent themselves (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 03:21 PM PST AP - The federal government has enticed 730 schools across the nation to reinvent themselves this school year, and nearly a third have chosen the most difficult paths to get a piece of the more than $500 million set aside for transforming schools where too many children are failing to learn.

Is the Golden Age of Education Spending Finally Over? (Time.com) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 02:45 PM PST Time.com - It's time for school districts to start talking about productivity, which in education circles is still considered a four-letter word

NACAC Issues More Results From College Rankings Report (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 01:23 PM PST U.S. News & World Report - The NACAC/U.S. News & World Report Ad Hoc Committee recently published the next phase of its study on the attitudes of college admission counseling professionals toward the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. This report is called How NACAC Members Use U.S. News & World Report Rankings--The Second in a Three-Part Series.

Poll: Education backed, but not new school taxes (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 12:27 PM PST AP - The public verdict is in and overwhelming: The better the education people get, the stronger the U.S. economy will be, a poll shows. But don't count on folks to support higher taxes to improve schools.

Feds: Va Tech violated law during 2007 shootings (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 03:27 PM PST AP - Virginia Tech could be fined as much as $55,000 because it broke the law by waiting too long to notify students during a 2007 shooting rampage, according to a federal report issued Thursday.

Veteran money floods for-profit schools: U.S. senator (Reuters) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 10:24 AM PST Reuters - For-profit schools, already subject to a government crackdown over academic standards, got a nearly eight-fold increase in veterans' education funding over the last five years, according to a report issued on Thursday.

How the poll was conducted (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2010 02:02 AM PST AP - The Associated Press-Stanford University Education Poll was conducted by Abt SRBI Inc. from Sept. 23-30. It is based on landline and cell phone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,001 adults.

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