Mo. governor: Community colleges to freeze tuition (AP) AP - Community colleges have joined Missouri's four-year colleges and universities in agreeing to freeze tuition next school year if state officials promise to nick and not slash their budgets. California students protest university fee hike (AFP)
Obama drops by daughter Sasha's school for event (AP) AP - Fresh from his weeklong trip through Asia, President Barack Obama is taking time to catch up on dad duty. Audit: public schools lax in financial management (AP) AP - Legislative auditors have faulted poor financial management by school districts for allowing questionable spending of public money, including the purchase of a $91,000 tow truck. Detroit schools seek to force board member to talk (AP) AP - The Detroit Public Schools will seek a court order forcing a school board member to testify about his role in a $1.5 billion construction bond issue, the district's emergency financial manager said Thursday. Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality (AP) AP - Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality — from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay. Idaho schools face cuts, agencies face elimination (AP) AP - Two months before the 2010 Idaho Legislature convenes, the session's bitter tenor is set: Public education funding is due to be slashed again and state agencies now scraping to get by could be eliminated to help cover a remaining $52 million budget shortfall. Study charts use of 'swap' deals by Pa. schools (AP) AP - Auditor General Jack Wagner said about one-fifth of Pennsylvania's school districts have recently been involved with interest rate "swaps," a practice he said the Legislature should ban. Second lawsuit attacks Florida school funding (AP) AP - State officials are facing a second lawsuit filed in as many weeks accusing them of shortchanging public schools in violation of a state constitutional provision requiring a "high quality" education for Florida's children. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AP - Officials say dozens of people occupying a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley, in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts have been arrested.
AFP - Student protests spread at California state universities over a big tuition hike Friday, with protesters barricading themselves inside a building at the University of California, Berkeley.
