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• Man at center of school desegregation lawsuit dies at 75
• Illinois families fight transgender access to school locker room
• 94 percent of Texas school districts meet academic standard
• How Employers View Online, For-Profit Bachelor's Degrees
• Hillary Clinton’s free college-tuition plan short on specifics

Man at center of school desegregation lawsuit dies at 75 Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:55 PM PDT COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Harry Briggs Jr., who as a young boy was at the center of a lawsuit that culminated with the U.S. Supreme Court outlawing segregated public schools, has died. He was 75.

Illinois families fight transgender access to school locker room Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:45 PM PDT A lawyer for dozens of families from a suburban Chicago high school district argued in court on Monday that students' privacy was being violated at a school that allowed a transgender girl access to the girls' locker room under an agreement with the federal government. A group of 63 students and 73 parents from Township High School District 211 challenged the agreement in federal court and is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent enforcement. Lawyers for the district, the U.S. Department of Education and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) argued that no one is harmed by the policy, which was agreed to last September after the ACLU filed a complaint in 2013 on behalf of a transgender student who was born male and identifies as female.

94 percent of Texas school districts meet academic standard Posted: 15 Aug 2016 01:16 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Nearly 94 percent of districts and around 84 percent of public schools in Texas met minimum education standards, officials announced Monday, in the final incarnation of an academic rating system that next year will be replaced with letter grades between A and F.

How Employers View Online, For-Profit Bachelor's Degrees Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:30 AM PDT Anthony Jones of Virginia doesn't regret getting his bachelor's degree online from a for-profit school, despite some of the criticisms he initially heard of these programs, such as them being of lower quality. Jones, who's now an account manager at a software provider, was ultimately satisfied with his undergraduate experience and even went on to earn a master's degree from the school. "Although I think that still somewhat of a stigma might exist against the for-profit universities, given the current state of the job market today and the low unemployment rates, employers are starting to get really creative and are definitely placing more value on this type of degree than they had in the past, and are much more willing to extend an offer to these applicants," says Amy Glaser, senior vice president of Adecco Staffing, a worldwide employment agency.

Hillary Clinton’s free college-tuition plan short on specifics Posted: 14 Aug 2016 11:15 AM PDT Hillary Clinton, who prides herself on the details of public policy, has said little about what is now the most ambitious and expensive proposal on her agenda: making public college tuition free for most Americans. The campaign website no longer lists a cost for the program, though campaign aides said they estimate it would take $500 billion in new federal spending over 10 years, $150 billion more than the college plan she put out last summer. The sketchiness may owe something to the way the free-tuition plan came to be part of Mrs. Clinton's platform.

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