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Photo credit Vdeb40by Sheryl Gay StolbergWASHINGTON — Sweet Briar College, the women’s liberal arts college in rural Virginia that announced it would close in August — setting off a storm of protest and lawsuits from students, faculty and alumnae — will remain open for at least another academic year under an agreement announced Saturday by the attorney general of Virginia.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.

Could Hillary Clinton bring together a party splintered over education policy?by Allie BidwellOutside of local elections, education policy has never been an issue that makes voters flock to the polls. It’s just not as sexy as raising or lowering taxes, nor as anxiety-inducing as foreign relations and national security.Read the rest of the story at U.S. News.

by the Associated PressRICHMOND, Va. — The Supreme Court of Virginia has temporarily blocked the planned closing of Sweet Briar College, a 114-year-old private school for women.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.

Photo Credit: Daniel X. O’Neilby Fran Spielman and Lauren FitzPatrickWANTED: CEO for nation’s third-largest public school system to replace chief forced out by federal investigation.Read the rest of the story at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Joshua Starr has taken a position as the new chief of a professional educators’ associationBy Andrew MetcalfThe former superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools is set to become the next CEO of an international association of educators.Read the rest of the story at Bethesda Magazine.See edCircuit’s March 2015 interview with Joshua Starr here.

by Thomas KaplanIn a campaign-style tour meant to put pressure on lawmakers, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo visited churches and a yeshiva on Sunday to promote a bill to give tax credits to families of students at private schools, including religious ones.Read the rest of the story at The New York Times.

by Maureen SullivanCarly Fiorina, the former CEO and chairman of Hewlett-Packard, today announced her run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. She has never held public office and calls her run a “return to citizen government.” She pokes fun at her undergraduate degree from Stanford in medieval history and philosophy but says it comes in handy when she wants to poke holes in President Obama’s comparison of ISIS terrorism with the Crusades.Read the rest of the story on Forbes.

edCircuit conducts a Skype interview with Michelle Herczog, president of the National Council for the Social Studies.  Herczog talks about the importance of this subject area, the latest NAEP results in social studies, and the C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards. 

by Doug BoltonNicky Morgan has been reappointed as Education Secretary in David Cameron’s post-election cabinet reshuffle.Morgan, who took over from the unpopular Michael Gove in July, dramatically increased her majority in election and has been rewarded with the same brief as before.The reappointment has proved controversial with some teachers, as Morgan, like her predecessor Gove, has no teaching experience.Read the rest of the story at The Independent.