Federal grants reward teacher performance (The Buffalo News)
$42 million set for teachers who raise student scores (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Ohio first to get federal grants for teacher bonuses (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Federal Government Begins Distributing Teacher Merit Pay (KXTV Sacramento)
Test-score teaching bonuses to begin (Chicago Tribune)
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Unauthorized Alien Students, Higher Education, and In-State Tuition Rates: A Legal Analysis
If you want to see how the issue of illegal aliens and their children have been carefully avoided and ignored by the Federal Government this report is a good start. No level less than the Supreme Court has ruled for and against it at the same time.
Read more...Move to Undo Higher Education Act Drug Provision Passes Senate Committee
The Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions HELP passed legislation Wednesday that among other things would remove the infamous "drug question" from the Free Application for Federal Student Aid FAFSA the form used by tens of millions of students each year t …
Read more...New Online Rx System Makes Student 'Top Entrepreneur' Finalist
A student-run company that helps doctors submit prescriptions online, as new federal regulations will eventually require, has made a University of Maryland senior a finalist for Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur of 2010 Awards. "Our system makes it as easy as writing an e-mail," says the Maryland senior.
Read more...Former UW-L student files federal lawsuit over sexual assault charge
MADISON A former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student hasfiled a federal lawsuit against the city of La Crosse, alleging afalse arrest for second-degree sexual assault inflicted emotionaland financial distress led him to leave school.
Read more...Changes to make federal student loan processing faster
For college students looking to apply for federal financial aid, the process of securing a federal loan this school year will be faster and more streamlined, but despite big changes in how the U.S. government runs the program, impacts on students should be minor, financial aid officials at colleges here say.
Read more...Student sues after spending night in jail for bringing dog into subway station
It was a more than a pet peeve. A Brooklyn College accounting student spent a grim night behind bars after a cop busted her for bringing her miniature poodle into a Bay Ridge subway station, according to a federal lawsuit. Icelyn Garcia, 25, claims she was wrongfully arrested after she...
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