Tag: EDUCATION

May 12, 2017

Despite talk of significant education budget cuts on the horizon under President Donald Trump, the agreement reached in Congress for the rest of the federal spending year provides increased funding to the two largest programs for public schools at the […]

April 11, 2017

Federal funding for educator quality helped a small district outside Boston cut down class sizes for beginning teachers. A cadre of Delaware districts used it to help teachers better personalize instruction for students. And the school district in El Paso, […]

March 31, 2017

President Donald Trump spent more than a year on the campaign trail saying he wanted to take an ax to the U.S. Department of Education and be the country’s biggest champion for school choice. And in his budget proposal last […]

February 21, 2017

Since Election Day, for-profit college companies have been on a hot streak. DeVry Education Group’s stock has leapt more than 40 percent. Strayer’s jumped 35 percent and Grand Canyon Education’s more than 28 percent. You do not need an M.B.A. […]

January 11, 2017

School choice advocates are waffling between excitement for potentially unprecedented new opportunities under a Donald Trump administration, and concern that the president-elect could also dramatically undermine the school choice movement. Trump’s promise on the campaign trail to spend $20 billion […]

November 11, 2016

Just days before the start of a new school term, ITT Educational Services, one of the nation’s largest for-profit educational companies, closed nearly all its campuses on Tuesday. The company cited the Education Department’s recent decision to bar the chain […]

September 9, 2016

With the closing of for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institutes, as well as the pay-to-play suspicions hanging over Donald Trump with allegations that he violated Florida bribery laws in order to try and protect Trump University against class action lawsuits, […]

September 7, 2016

Just days before the start of a new school term, ITT Educational Services, one of the nation’s largest for-profit educational companies, closed nearly all its campuses on Tuesday. The company cited the Education Department’s recent decision to bar the chain […]

July 20, 2016

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has proposed to flatten the state’s funding formula by equalizing the amount of money it distributes to poor and wealthy students, according to local news media. Read More on Education Week

July 13, 2016

When Adam Miller sent his children to public school in Los Angeles, he realized just how behind the times the institution was in terms of its technology. So he did what any reasonable parent might do. The chief exec and […]

June 13, 2016

The vise appears to be tightening at the for-profit education giant ITTEducational Services. Its profits are collapsing, its stock is below $2, and last Monday the company got bad news from the Education Department in Washington, a main overseer. ITT, […]

May 13, 2016

In an era when a professional baseball team team employs adirector of decision science, when a football team hires a brainy baseball exec to run its shop, and when an annual gatheringsponsored by MIT morphs into one of the most […]

March 8, 2016

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington DC this morning rejected the for-profit college trade group’s challenge to the Obama Administration’s gainful employment rule, a regulation that holds career training programs accountable for consistently leaving students […]

February 5, 2016

In November, following the failure of an accredited for-profit college chain that state and federal regulators had accused of mass fraud, then-Education Secretary Arne Duncan gave his top deputies a homework assignment: Find ways the department could reform college accreditation […]

September 22, 2015

Not so long ago, employers competed for younger workers with unlimited snacks and foosball tables. But with total student debt now at more than a trillion dollars in the United States, a new trend may be starting to emerge: debt […]