Category Archives: Education

Student loan change: What’s in it for you?

By doris | Published: March 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Bigger grants for college students who need them. Relaxed payment terms for students with loans. More money for community colleges and historically black institutions. The law that President Barack Obama signed Tuesday could mean big changes for hard-pressed students and colleges as the government becomes the primary issuer of [...]

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Obama seeks to overhaul ‘No Child Left Behind’

By doris | Published: March 14, 2010

This is nice no child left behind,but they have been pushing to hard and to fast. Why don’t they ask the teacher how to help these children. Some of the children can not do what they are asking them to pass, because they are pushing to hard and to fast. We want them to learn [...]

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White House social secretary to step down

By doris | Published: February 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary, plans to step down, the Obama administration announced Friday. Her office came under scrutiny after a couple who lacked an invitation were allowed into President Obama’s first state dinner. “We are enormously grateful to Desiree Rogers for the terrific job she’s [...]

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N.J. to vote on bill to let illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition

By doris | Published: January 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Both houses of the New Jersey legislature plan to vote Monday on a controversial bill backed by Democrats that would qualify illegal immigrants for in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. Supporters hope to pass the measure before Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine leaves office. Gov.-elect Christopher J. Christie, a [...]

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Study: Schools face shortfalls after stimulus ends

By doris | Published: December 22, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com ALBANY, N.Y. – Using federal stimulus money to avoid layoffs at schools is going to create a shortfall even more difficult for states and schools to contend with when that money runs out, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Monday. New York alone will see a $2 billion shortfall after stimulus [...]

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Reid backs health care public option

By doris | Published: October 27, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The contentious debate over health care took a new twist Monday as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced his decision to craft legislation including a public insurance option allowing states to opt out. Reid’s decision is a major victory for the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party. [...]

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Are states following stimulus plan rules for schools?

By doris | Published: October 21, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com And according to a preliminary report on stimulus funding for schools by the Department of Education and the Domestic Policy Council, the stimulus plan has created jobs. State governments have created and saved at least 250,000 education jobs — and restored nearly all their projected education budget shortfalls for fiscal years [...]

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Helen Keller statue unveiled at Capitol

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “Some are still dismissed and cast aside for nothing more than being less than perfect,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said at the unveiling ceremony. “The story of Helen Keller inspires us all.” The statue shows Keller — who lost her sight and hearing to illness when she was 19 [...]

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Surgeon General Pick A Paid Adviser To Burger King

By doris | Published: August 15, 2009

Full Story at Blogs from CNN.com In the midst of perhaps the most contentious national debate since the Vietnam War, President Obama has nominated a paid consultant for Burger King to be the nation’s top doctor. Can you spell tone-deaf? Dr. Regina Benjamin has been paid 10-thousand dollars since last year to serve on a [...]

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Unsung heroes of World War II finally get their due

By doris | Published: May 24, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com “[Charles] Lindbergh was flying across the Atlantic, and a lot of other people were flying air races and things like that. It was very romantic,” she said. Flight was still relatively new in the 1920s and 1930s, and female pilots were few. But Tedeschi was determined. In 1941, she found a [...]

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California voters reject budget crisis measures

By doris | Published: May 20, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Californians in Tuesday’s special election voted down five of six propositions aimed at closing the state’s budget deficit, according to partial returns. State leaders conceded defeat based on those returns. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had said that, if the propositions failed, he would have to make drastic cuts to education and health [...]

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Obama announces education help for unemployed

By doris | Published: May 11, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com The president outlined a plan under which the Department of Education will send colleges legal guidance, encouraging them to increase financial aid packages for the unemployed so they can enroll in educational and training programs while keeping their unemployment benefits. Under Obama’s initiative, colleges would consider a person’s current financial situation [...]

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