House Approves Funds For "Energy Efficient" Schools
The House has committed more than $20 billion to make schools more energy-efficient. The voted - for - 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act has a further goal to make schools good for the environment, which can reduce asthma and other environmentally linked health problems among academics and students. The Houston Chronicle reports that ...
Yale Plans To Expand Undergraduate Programs
Yale University has plans to expand its undergraduate programs by 15 percent, to about 6,000 more students. The new colleges will be built just north of the Grove Street Cemetery which would help connect the science facilities to the rest of the campus and will be open in 2013. The New York Times reports that in ...
Teachers In California Protest Against Budget Cuts
Tens of thousands teachers have gathered in Californian streets to protest budget cuts to education financing proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. After the protest at 8:30 a.m., teachers returned to their working regular duties, denouncing the protest as a disruption of the school day. The New York Times reports that if passed, the cuts would reduce ...
Leaders Of "F" Schools Will Get Bonuses
When Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City, released that the state had graded all of state schools on a scale of A through F, the Acorn school principals and assistant principals were set to get bonuses for their outstanding academic achievements. Along with the Acorn school, administrators at four other schools that ...
Chinese Police Drag Parents From Protest
Around 100 parents have gathered outside a courthouse, holding the pictures of their dead kids and shouting their names. The Chinese police had to forcefully remove the angry parents from the courthouse. ABC News reports that the police action was the clearest signal yet that authorities are hardening their stance against the impromptu displays of public ...
College Alumni Magazines Compete With Facebook
The advent of online social networks and communities has created problems for college alumni magazines, especially for those that are slow to become available on the Web. Some of alumni magazines have changed their format of content; the University of California, Los Angeles, for example, have rid themselves of the printed class notes to use ...
Student Loans Bypass Community Colleges
Some of the nation's biggest banks plan to stop providing student loans for college applicants and students. Less-selective four-year colleges, like Eastern Oregon University and William Jessup University in Rocklin, California, have already been dropped by other student lenders. The New York Times reports that some loan companies have exited the student loan business entirely, viewing ...
