Education Law

Weekend Snippets - Now I Get It

Built a home office this weekend, so hopefully I can get a lot more weekend work done, including the snippets. Let's go ...

Corruption like this with these massive teacher pension systems always scares me.

Time to talk tuition hikes again. It will be interesting to see what the bad economy does to them. University budgets are thin, but its pretty bad PR to put out a 10% tuition hike.

Iowa, whose schools are becoming a little techy with all those Scott McLeod lectures, debates a potential cell-phone ban.

Minnesota considers a 18 year compulsory education law.

HBCU's are under assault. With a good friend of mine teaching at an HBCU by choice, I really feel for those poor professors.

Indiana is thinking of background checking everyone that has a relationship with the school.

If you haven't noticed, there is quite the education fight going on in Ohio. Here's the latest report that is against the Governor's plan.

Louisiana is starting to pay a price for its ultra conservative turn of recent years. Oklahoma City, though, I guess is safe for science conferences.

New Jersey is considering having criminal records follow students like academic records in school transfers.

Here is a bad, bad headline if you are a teacher. Just simply can't lose the PR war like this.

Autism only charter schools? Interesting idea. Not sure how that fits with the Least Restrictive Environment provision, but interesting nonetheless.

And your weekend fun: Wow, why couldn't they just explain the economic problem like this in the first place? Leave it to a graduate student I suppose ... 

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Full post as published by Edjurist on February 21, 2009 (boomark / email).