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• New test aims to benchmark skills of U.S. college graduates
• Ky. governor announces $41M education grant
• Chicago students begin new term with fewer teachers, schools
• 4 ND tribal colleges get workforce training grants
• Justice Department radicals sue to force poor black kids to attend crappy schools
• Workers keep watch over new Chicago school year

New test aims to benchmark skills of U.S. college graduates Posted: 26 Aug 2013 11:54 AM PDT By Daniel Lovering BOSTON (Reuters) - Seniors returning to classes at dozens of U.S. colleges and universities have one more hurdle to prepare for this school year: a new standardized test for graduating students intended to give prospective employers a measure of their abilities. Called Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+), the test aims to provide a more objective way to compare the intellectual achievements of graduates of different schools. ...

Ky. governor announces $41M education grant Posted: 26 Aug 2013 10:21 AM PDT Twenty-two Kentucky school districts will share a $41 million grant in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top-District Competition. Gov. Steve Beshear said Monday that the consortium of Kentucky ...

Chicago students begin new term with fewer teachers, schools Posted: 26 Aug 2013 08:57 AM PDT By Mary Wisniewski and Renita D. Young CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three months after Chicago Public Schools' controversial decision to close 50 schools, the new term will begin with cutbacks in staff and more children in fewer classrooms as the nation's third-largest school system makes do with fewer buildings. More than 30,000 children on Monday will be directly or indirectly affected by the public school closures - either because they have to go to a new school or because their school is absorbing students from a shuttered building. ...

4 ND tribal colleges get workforce training grants Posted: 26 Aug 2013 08:52 AM PDT North Dakota's Commerce Department has awarded grants to four tribal colleges to develop workforce training programs for students. Grants of $1 million are going to Turtle Mountain Community College in ...

Justice Department radicals sue to force poor black kids to attend crappy schools Posted: 26 Aug 2013 06:48 AM PDT The U.S. Justice Department is suing the state of Louisiana in federal court in New Orleans to prevent low-income students and their families in 34 public school systems from using vouchers to attend private schools for the 2014-15 academic year.

Workers keep watch over new Chicago school year Posted: 26 Aug 2013 04:30 AM PDT Thousands of Chicago Public Schools students will head to new schools Monday, the first day of what Mayor Rahm Emanuel has called "a new beginning" for the nation's third-largest district after ...

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