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• US Ed Dept. adds 12 schools to Title IX list
• 4 Changes Coming to Student Loan Interest Rates, Rules
• Protecting Incompetent Teachers Fosters Income Inequality
• Does Your Kid Go to School in a State Where Thousands Are Isolated and Restrained?

US Ed Dept. adds 12 schools to Title IX list Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:23 PM PDT BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has added 12 colleges and universities to its growing list of educational institutions being investigated for their handling of sexual abuse allegations.

4 Changes Coming to Student Loan Interest Rates, Rules Posted: 02 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT Most regulatory changes, including changes to student loan interest rates, are effective on July 1, despite the fact that the federal fiscal year doesn't begin until October 1. This is partially due to a requirement that the Department of Education give advance notice of any proposed regulatory changes, including those dealing with student loans. Federal law mandates that the Department of Education set aside times for the public and affected to comment on the proposed changes. Interest rates: Last year, Congress changed the law that dictates interest rates on federal student loans.

Protecting Incompetent Teachers Fosters Income Inequality Posted: 02 Jul 2014 02:45 AM PDT The ground shook in California recently, and for once, it had nothing to do with shifting tectonic plates. This decision will not mean an overnight change in the pernicious defense of our dismal public schools by unions and their Democrat backers. Judge Rolf Treu's ruling in Vergara v. California declared that union protections of incompetent teachers were a violation of a student's constitutional right to an education – a right affirmed in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that ordered the desegregation of U.S. schools. Teachers in California receive tenure after less than two years on the job, a practice former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger tried, and failed, to change.

Does Your Kid Go to School in a State Where Thousands Are Isolated and Restrained? Posted: 20 Jun 2014 11:18 AM PDT At a Virginia school, an autistic boy who was frequently wrestled into a "quiet area" had to have surgery after his hand was crushed in a door. At a Georgia school, a 13-year-old hanged himself while shut in a room alone. Restraints and forced segregations were used 267,000 times in U.S. public schools in 2012, according to an investigation released this week by ProPublica and National Public Radio. Most of the time restrained students had existing emotional or developmental disabilities. During the majority of these incidents school staff members held students down, often in the "prone position," with their faces to the floor.

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