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• Fenty's Loss in D.C.: A Blow to Rhee's Education Reform? (Time.com)
• 2 injured in shooting near Los Angeles high school (AP)
• Education reform a factor in DC mayor's loss (AP)
• Loan Default Rates at Prominent Online Universities (U.S. News & World Report)
• Mass. bullying suspect seeks dismissal of charges (AP)
• Not a good election night for education reformers (The Upshot)

Fenty's Loss in D.C.: A Blow to Rhee's Education Reform? (Time.com) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 04:50 PM PDT Time.com - Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed revolutionary school chancellor Michelle Rhee. Will his defeat to Vincent Gray in the Democratic primary mean that Rhee may exit too? How the fate of her sweeping reform is in doubt

2 injured in shooting near Los Angeles high school (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 03:06 PM PDT AP - Los Angeles police say a man and a teenager were injured in a shooting down the block from a high school.

Education reform a factor in DC mayor's loss (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - Mayor Adrian Fenty's head of public schools fired hundreds of teachers and aided a turnaround of Washington's failing school system, but his choice of school chancellor also helped bounce him out of office.

Loan Default Rates at Prominent Online Universities (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:42 PM PDT U.S. News & World Report - After months of scrutiny from legislators, for-profit schools were dealt another blow when the Department of Education released the most recent federal student loan default rates this week. The national average default rate has risen by a tenth of a percentage point to 7 percent from last year, while the rate at for-profit schools (the largest of which are online-oriented schools like the University of Phoenix) jumped from 11 to 11.6 percent. "While for-profit schools have profited and prospered thanks to federal dollars, some of their students have not," U.S. ...

Mass. bullying suspect seeks dismissal of charges (AP) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 01:15 PM PDT AP - Grand jury evidence doesn't support the charges against a Massachusetts teen accused of bullying a 15-year-old classmate who committed suicide, her attorney said Wednesday.

Not a good election night for education reformers (The Upshot) Posted: 15 Sep 2010 07:18 AM PDT The Upshot - Voters in Washington and New York booted out several local education reform candidates Tuesday night, suggesting that the Obama administration and its (surprisingly bipartisan) array of allies on educational reform still have a long way to go in convincing urban voters of their mission. In D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty lost his reelection bid to City [...]

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