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- Moody's downgrades Chicago schools, park district ratings
- No safety instructions given in deadly California bus crash
- Minnesota school testing interrupted by possible hacking
- What Borrowers Can Expect From the New Income-Driven Repayment Plan
| Moody's downgrades Chicago schools, park district ratings Posted: 13 May 2015 04:43 PM PDT Moody's Investors Service downgraded the debt of both the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Park District on Wednesday, a day after it downgraded the city's bond rating to junk status. Moody's has ... |
| No safety instructions given in deadly California bus crash Posted: 13 May 2015 04:25 PM PDT SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The high school students who struggled to escape from a burning tour bus after a collision with a tractor-trailer last year that killed 10 never received the required safety instructions from the driver before the crash, according to documents released Wednesday. |
| Minnesota school testing interrupted by possible hacking Posted: 13 May 2015 03:39 PM PDT Minnesota student testing has been suspended again after what is believed to be a sophisticated hacking attempt. The state Department of Education said Wednesday it was temporarily halting the computerized ... |
| What Borrowers Can Expect From the New Income-Driven Repayment Plan Posted: 13 May 2015 07:00 AM PDT Back in the spring of 2014, President Barack Obama's budget request proposed expanding the Pay As You Earn income-driven repayment program, with some caveats, to more federal student loan borrowers. Several months later, the president strengthened that request by issuing an executive order requiring the Department of Education to promulgate regulations to implement that expansion no later than the end of December 2015. To fulfill that order, the Department of Education initiated a process called negotiated rulemaking this past fall. This process is required under the Higher Education Act and entails a series of public hearings, meetings with constituents of the parties that will be affected by the proposed regulatory changes and a sometimes extensive public comment period. |
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