2016年6月24日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Kansas legislators close to passing school funding plan

Posted: 24 Jun 2016 05:44 PM PDT

State Rep. Dan Hawkins, R-Wichita, along with the Kansas House Appropriations Committee, looks over their new school finance plan. Friday June 24, 2016, at the statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The bill would direct some profits from the sale of the Kansas Bioscience Authority to the State General Fund so that it may be used for school equity. (Chris Neal/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP) MANDATORY CREDITTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators were close Friday night to passing an education funding plan after top Republicans rewrote it to gain broad, bipartisan support to satisfy a court mandate and end a looming threat that public schools across the state might shut down.

Panel votes against accreditor of for-profit colleges

Posted: 24 Jun 2016 01:02 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016 photo a sign rests near Lincoln Technical Institute, in Somerville, Mass. The nation's largest accreditor of for-profit colleges faces a vote Thursday that could lead to its demise, leaving hundreds of thousands of students at risk of losing access to federal financial aid. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)WASHINGTON (AP) — An advisory panel to the Education Department has voted to recommend the government sever ties with a group that accredits many of the nation's for-profit colleges, including schools once owned by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges Inc. — a critical vote that could lead schools to close their doors and threaten financial aid to hundreds of thousands of students.

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