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• Charter Schools Discriminate Against Students with Disabilities
• Mo. governor makes more cuts to higher education
• Library marks 1862 creation of land-grant colleges
• Pennsylvania Budget Agreement in the Works
• Assembly Dem faction: Slow university merger
• NY Legislature passes teacher eval disclosure bill
• Education tax credit to expand in new Pa. budget

Charter Schools Discriminate Against Students with Disabilities Posted: 22 Jun 2012 03:09 PM PDT COMMENTARY | Public schools face a myriad of challenges today: decreased funding, larger class sizes, test preparation, and under-prepared students. Beginning in the early 2000s, public schools also began to face a stripping of their student clientele, as parents and special interest groups got into the education business by creating charter schools.

Mo. governor makes more cuts to higher education Posted: 22 Jun 2012 01:23 PM PDT Missouri's public colleges and universities took another budget hit Friday from Gov. Jay Nixon, marking the third straight year that higher education institutions have seen their basic state aid reduced.

Library marks 1862 creation of land-grant colleges Posted: 22 Jun 2012 12:11 PM PDT The Library of Congress is celebrating key decisions made 150 years ago that spread access to higher education and knowledge from the wealthy to the masses.

Pennsylvania Budget Agreement in the Works Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:53 AM PDT If the current signs are any indication, Pennsylvania could be getting a budget approved before the end-of-June deadline for the second year in a row. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett and top Republican leaders have agreed on an outline of a $27.65 billion spending plan, which is different from the $27.1 billion dollar plan proposed by the governor in early February. The new budget could restore some funding to higher education and human services, but the exact details have not yet been released, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Assembly Dem faction: Slow university merger Posted: 22 Jun 2012 09:28 AM PDT Nine Democrats in the Assembly tried to slow fast-moving legislation to overhaul New Jersey's higher education system on Thursday by threatening to tie up adoption of a new state budget unless the university reorganization plan is delayed.

NY Legislature passes teacher eval disclosure bill Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:41 AM PDT Teacher evaluations will be kept secret from most taxpayers after state lawmaker's overwhelmingly passed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's bill Thursday, giving a major victory to teachers unions, who opposed wider disclosure of the appraisals.

Education tax credit to expand in new Pa. budget Posted: 22 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT A nearly $27.7 billion state budget taking shape in the Pennsylvania Capitol includes a substantial expansion of a tax credit available to businesses whose contributions can be used for scholarships to private schools, top state Republican lawmakers and legislative aides said Thursday.

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