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Photo Credit: The World Councilby Fredreka SchoutenA nonprofit education group founded by Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush disclosed a full list of its donors Wednesday, a day after Bush released more than three decades of tax returns.Read the rest of the story at USA Today.
Photo Credit: Milei.vencelWASHINGTON, June 30, 2015—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved $315 million in two credits for Vietnam to support the government’s agriculture restructuring plan and help with the revision of a new education curriculum.Read the rest of the story at the World Bank website.
Photo Credit: National Cancer InstituteBy T. Keung Hui and Bruce SiceloffRALEIGH, N.C. – At least one-third of North Carolina’s school systems are suspending their driver’s education programs this summer until they learn whether they’ll receive any state money to help pay for the classes.Read the rest of the story at The News & Observer.
Photo Credit: Susan AdamsOne Stanford student thought “paid vacation” meant that her boss would pay for all her travel and leisure activities. Another didn’t know there was such a thing as a water bill, and a third threatened to call the police and report the work study office because it was letting the government withhold money from her paycheck.Read the rest of the story at Forbes.
by Richard D. KahlenbergTeacher tenure rights, first established more than a century ago, are under unprecedented attack. Tenure—which was enacted to protect students’ education and those who provide it—is under assault from coast to coast, in state legislatures, in state courtrooms, and in the media.In June 2014, in the case of Vergara v. California, a state court judge struck down teacher tenure and seniority laws as a violation of the state’s constitution.* Former CNN and NBC journalist Campbell Brown has championed a copycat case, Wright v. New York, challenging the Empire State’s tenure law (which was consolidated with another New York case challenging tenure, Davids v. New York). Similar cases are reportedly in the works in several other states.Read the rest of the story at AFT.
Photo Credit: Ludovic Bertronby Meg Bernhard and Mary Ellen McIntireThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. What will the effect be on higher education?Read the rest of the story at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
