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US: Behind college raid, rising drug use on campus
By Daniel B. Wood, The Christian Science Monitor
LOS ANGELES - The arrest this week of 96 suspects on drug-related charges, including 75 students, after a six-month sting operation at San Diego State University is shining a fresh spotlight on the issue of growing substance abuse at America's colleges and universities.
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MA: Keeping the boys away from the girls
By Tracy Jan, The Boston Globe (registration)
The teacher, a burly presence in the front of the room, calls his young charges "gentlemen," even if they're really boys.
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MA: College endowment tax is studied
By John Hechinger, The Wall Street Journal (subscription)
Massachusetts legislators, demonstrating a growing resentment against the wealth of elite universities in tight economic times, are studying a plan to levy a 2.5% annual tax on the portion of college endowments that exceed $1 billion.
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NC: Easley supports college for illegal immigrants
By Kristin Collins, The News & Observer (Raleigh) (registration)
In a statement that defied the legal advice of the state's attorney general, Gov. Mike Easley told community colleges Thursday that they can set their own admission standards, which currently welcome students regardless of their immigration status.
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WV: Garrison attended briefing on Bresch day after her call
By Patricia Sabatini and Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
West Virginia University President Mike Garrison, who has repeatedly said he washed his hands of Mylan Inc. executive Heather Bresch's disputed M.B.A. degree after her initial call, discussed the matter in a briefing with his chief of staff and other top aides late the following day, according to an interview conducted by an investigative panel.
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CA: Calif. students plead not guilty in major drug bust
By The Associated Press, USA Today
SAN DIEGO - The suspected leader of a drug trafficking ring was among seven students who pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges stemming from an undercover operation at San Diego State University that netted more than 100 arrests.
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CT: Yale fires back at South Korean university over fake degree
By The Associated Press, The Hartford Courant (registration)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Details of a sex scandal involving a top South Korean official and an art history professor, who lied about having a Yale degree, will be used by the Ivy League school to defend itself against a federal lawsuit filed by the South Korean university that hired the professor.
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GA: Ga Board of Ed approves math waivers
By The Associated Press, The Macon Telegraph
The state Board of Education has approved waivers to allow gifted eighth-graders taking high school math classes this year to have their work count toward graduation. The state already permits middle school students to take high school courses that count toward graduation. Waivers were needed because of the new curriculum and graduation rules.
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IA: Regents pick new leader
By Brian Morelli, Iowa City Press-Citizen
The Iowa state Board of Regents has filled its top staff position with a public administrator from Florida, the board announced Thursday.
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IL: Harper 4-year plan rejected
By Amber Krosel, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
Efforts to offer bachelor's degrees in two program areas at Harper College hit another political roadblock Thursday at the Illinois Capitol.
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IL: NIU's Cole Hall to be remodeled
By Nguyen Huy Vu, The Associated Press, The State Journal-Register (Springfield)
The head of Northern Illinois University said the school has a $7.7 million plan to remodel the lecture hall where five people were slain by a suicidal gunman on Valentine's Day.
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KY: 5 named to state school board
By Ashlee Clark, Lexington Herald-Leader
Gov. Steve Beshear tapped four Democrats and one Republican to serve on the state Board of Education, his office announced Thursday.
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KY: Tuition increases scaled back
By Art Jester, Lexington Herald-Leader
Facing some of the angriest public remarks by a group of Kentucky university presidents in memory, a panel gave the initial vote of approval Thursday to higher tuition at the state's public universities and community colleges, including five institutions whose requests were cut.
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KY: Group urges cuts in some tuition hikes
By Nancy C. Rodriguez, The Courier-Journal (Louisville)
Five of Kentucky's higher-education institutions -- including the state's community and technical college system -- should not be allowed to raise tuition and fees as much as they propose.
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LA: Tuition increase battle likely
By Will Sentell, The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
Bills that would increase tuition at the LSU and Southern University law schools breezed through a House committee Thursday, but both are expected to trigger controversy later.
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MD: Union won't back slots
By The Sun Staff, The Sun (Baltimore)
Breaking with the state teachers union, the Montgomery County Education Association voted Wednesday night not to endorse Maryland's slot machine gambling referendum, according to a news release from Marylanders United to Stop Slots.
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MD: Stem cell study grants awarded
By Jonathan Bor, The Sun (Baltimore)
Maryland has handed out its second round of grants for stem cell research, awarding a total of $23 million for 62 projects ranging from basic studies of the cells' properties to potential therapies for human disease.
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MO: MU faculty members voice concerns over cuts
By Danny Lawhon, The Columbia Missourian
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The frustrations of some MU faculty members over a shortage in state funding and a proposed plan to increase faculty salaries by freezing teaching positions were heard at a special meeting Thursday afternoon.
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MT: Bruner -- Education is a crime-stopper
By Jennifer McKee, Helena Independent Record
Teachers, not cops, are the most effective weapons against crime, said Lee Bruner, a Republican candidate for attorney general who said this week he supports coal mining as a way to pay for public education.
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MT: Auditor declines regents' request
By Charles S. Johnson, Billings Gazette
The state legislative auditor said Thursday he cannot conduct a performance audit of two Montana student loan groups as the Board of Regents requested last week.
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NC: New UNC chancellor outlines grand plans
By Jane Stancill and Eric Ferreri, The News & Observer (Raleigh) (registration)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Holden Thorp's life changed forever at the Exxon station on Wendover Avenue in Greensboro, where UNC President Erskine Bowles, with one hand on the gas nozzle, leaned in the car and asked him to be the next chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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ND: Students debate sales tax
By Jon Knutson, The Forum (Fargo) (registration)
The public debate on the proposed half-cent Cass County economic development sales tax will be settled by voters on June 10.
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NH: Six schools to face revamps
By Melanie Asmar, Concord Monitor
Six New Hampshire schools may be required to restructure after they failed to make adequate progress on state tests for the fifth year in a row. Hillsboro-Deering Elementary School and Winnisquam Regional Middle School are among those that may be forced to restructure the way their schools are run, reopen as charter schools or replace all or most of the staff, including the principal.
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NH: Bipartisan amendment passes panel
By Sarah Liebowitz, Concord Monitor
In the clearest sign yet that a constitutional amendment on education funding may pass the House, a compromise proposal won overwhelming approval from a House committee yesterday. The bipartisan vote was a turnaround from last year, when Democratic and Republican House leaders failed to reach agreement on the issue and lawmakers handily defeated a different version of the amendment.
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NJ: Auditors want more vigilance on disqualified bus drivers
By Brian T. Murray, The Star-Ledger (Newark)
The state Motor Vehicle Commission and the Department of Education must standardize and reconcile their systems of tracking disqualified school bus drivers, state auditors contend, noting flagged drivers are still being listed as eligible to transport children.
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NV: Nevada loyalty oath alarms few teachers
By Lawrence Mower, Las Vegas Review-Journal (registration)
Like California's constitution, the Nevada Constitution requires state university system faculty pledge an oath to "protect and defend" the U.S. and state governments and constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
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NY: Cuomo sees fraud in some lawyers' pensions
By Nicholas Confesore, The New York Times
Hundreds of lawyers across the state have been illegally granted state pension benefits by school districts, towns and other governmental entities, according to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who has opened an investigation into the abuses.
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OK: Henry signs fitness bill
By News Services, Shawnee News-Star
SHAWNEE, Okla. - Gov. Brad Henry signed a bill this week that will double the amount of class time devoted to physical activity and nutrition programs in public schools.
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SC: Vote on testing bill, Rex says
By Bill Robinson, The State (Columbia)
State schools chief Jim Rex challenged the S.C. Senate on Thursday to vote on legislation that would replace the current standardized testing system with one educators tell him would be more useful.
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TN: Bredesen focuses on schools but tightens belt
By Colby Sledge, The Tennessean (Nashville)
Gov. Phil Bredesen maintained his dedicated stance to state education on Thursday as he discussed the elimination of new funding for K-12 schools and a reduction in current funding for colleges and universities.
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TN: Officials revisit tuition increases
By Erik Schelzig, The Associated Press, Knoxville News Sentinel (registration)
Higher-education officials say they hope to keep tuition increases below 10 percent despite a $55 million cut in state funding.
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TX: Facebook puts into place new safety controls
By Corilyn Shropshire, The Houston Chronicle (registration)
When Kathy Frazar heard the operators of Facebook.com had promised to boost safeguards to protect younger users from online predators and shield them from inappropriate content, she was encouraged but not relieved.
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US: Attorneys general reach Facebook agreement
By Marcus Moore, The Gazette (Gaithersburg)
In an attempt to make the Internet safer for children, all but one of the nation's state attorneys general have turned their attention to another popular social networking site.
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VT: VSAC ensures student loans
By Tim Johnson, Burlington Free Press
College loans will be available to Vermonters as usual this fall, the state's principal lending agency announced Thursday.
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Parents turn to states for autism help
By Daniel C. Vock, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(UPDATED 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday May 1) One of the toughest problems facing autism patients, their families and policymakers is paying for treatment. Families are increasingly relying on states to help them cope with the financial, medical and educational needs.
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23 states face budget gaps in '09
By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Like a college student fishing for stray quarters in the sofa cushions, states are tightening their belts, dipping into their rainy day funds and hoping revenues will pick up. But the faltering economy already has punched a $26 billion hole in 23 state budgets for 2009 – and it could get worse, according to a new report issued today (April 25).
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Congress encroaching on state priorities
By Raymond C. Scheppach, Special to Stateline.org
Far scarier than the economic downturn for states is the growing trend on the part of Congress to restrict state revenue and spending prerogatives and to replace them with congressional priorities, writes Raymond C. Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association, in his latest commentary for Stateline.org. He cites provisions in two bills now making their way through Congress as important examples.
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Governors pitch ambitious programs
By Pamela M. Prah, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Billion-dollar deficits in California, New York and Arizona haven’t stopped governors there and elsewhere from proposing big-ticket items for 2008. Stateline.org looks at proposals from governors’ 2008 "state of the state" speeches and provides an exclusive summary of all the addresses so far.
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A compact for post-secondary education
By Raymond C. Scheppach, Special to Stateline.org
The United States is falling behind its global competitors in higher education, and states, educators and the private sector need to jointly make new commitments to strengthen public colleges and universities, asserts Raymond C. Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association, in his latest commentary for Stateline.org.
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Time to think global in testing U.S. students
By Raymond C. Scheppach, Special to Stateline.org
In today's global economy, it’s less important how students in Iowa or Oregon compare to those in Alabama or Virginia on a national test. What matters most is how students in North Carolina or Texas compare to those in Denmark or Russia, and so on. In his latest column for Stateline.org, the executive director of the National Governors Association writes that the solution to the economic competitiveness challenge is not enacting federal standards or tests for U.S. students. The solution is for the states to work together to adopt internationally benchmarked education standards.
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