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School district pays for risky bond swaps

The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., published “Risky Business,” a four-part series on the Bethlehem Area School District’s costly use of variable-rate bonds and swaps to finance hundreds of millions […]
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Admissions 'clout list' outed at Univ. of Illinois

The University of Illinois is re-evaluating its admissions policies after the Chicago Tribune uncovered a "shadow admissions process" for politically connected applicants. "At a time when it's more competitive than […]
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Federal money used for expensive dinners, lobbying

While schools struggle though a budget crisis and freeze funds, San Diego Unified spent more than $2,000 in federal money for disadvantaged students to send its superintendent to a conference […]
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Analysis finds lost students

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis found that the state of Georgia does not keep track of all of students, which leads to questions about the state's dropout and graduation rates. According […]
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Colleges abuse federal law to keep athletic records secret

A six-month Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch investigation found that a 35-year-old federal law created to protect academic records is being used at some schools to shield athletics-related documents including NCAA violations. […]
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Higher poverty schools get newer teachers

The Statesman Journal recently ran a two-day package that showed how the newest and least experienced teachers in the Salem-Keizer School District work in the highest poverty schools, which was […]
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Advanced placement classes failing to prepare students

Florida Times-Union reporters Topher Sanders and Mary Kelli Palka used open records laws to obtain data on Advanced Placement classes that the Jacksonville, Fla. school district didn't want public. Sanders […]
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California schools struggle to deal with problem teachers, staff

A series in the Los Angeles Times examines how effectively districts across California are dealing with teachers and other staff who are failing their students. In the Los Angeles Unified […]
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New teachers twice as likely to teach in poor D.C. neighborhoods

"Students in the region's poorest neighborhoods are nearly twice as likely to have a new or second-year teacher as those in the wealthiest, a Washington Post analysis has found. The […]
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Paper questions state’s charter school reporting methods

The Michigan Department of Education’s annual report shows charter schools perform better than other districts, but the department might be changing the method it uses to gauge charter school performance. […]
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