Tag: education economics

June 10, 2016

Los Angeles Unified school district has been ordered by state officials to redirect their spending of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to bring aid to those students who would most benefit from extra academic help. In a […]

June 6, 2016

The Chicago state Senate has rejected Gov. Bruce Rauner’s (R) and House Speaker Mike Madigan’s (D) request to pass a makeshift budget and has voted against a competing financial plan written by Democratic leaders. Tina Sfondeles reports for the Chicago […]

June 3, 2016

The leaders of Michigan’s three major research universities said Thursday that Detroit is pivotal to their missions, unveiling a study showing their research cluster generated $958 million in economic activity in the city last year and directly employed more than […]

May 31, 2016

The Intelligence Unit of The Economist magazine has released a report titled “Education to 2030” that claims that economic, social, and technological developments are making a quality education more important than ever before — but also that these same trends […]

May 17, 2016

Nationwide, school districts have used bonds in different ways to support schools. In Florida’s Pinellas school district, a borrowing plan has helped offset the cost of $94.5 million for building renovations. That allowed construction to be completed faster, since the […]

May 16, 2016

Now that it is clear that Texas’ complicated school finance system is here to stay, districts around the state must find a way to move forward — whether that is by pressuring lawmakers for more money or by raising property […]

May 3, 2016

When it comes to learning to code, Nick Winters believes it’s not enough to drag, drop and snap blocks together, which many kids do when they use online coding tools including Scratch. They should learn how to write commands—brackets, parentheses, […]

April 29, 2016

Figures like $2 million, $300,000, $10 million, and $900,000, abounded in a recent Washington Post story that revealed how small liberal arts schools are turning to the relatively new-ish startup concept of crowdfunding sites for alumni and student program donations—all through […]

April 28, 2016

The fight against the overwhelming student debt burden in this country just got more personal, with a campaign to educate debtors about programs that can relieve their individual debt. Recognizing that it’s been four years since student debt hit the […]

April 25, 2016

Arizona has made some of the biggest cuts to higher education seen across the country in recent years, so a proposed $5 million grant of unknown provenance dedicated to the state’s “economic freedom” centers — all of which received seed funds […]

April 19, 2016

Gradescope, which has graded millions of exam questions, has made the grade itself. The company has raised a $2.6 million round of funding from Freestyle Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Reach Capital and the House Fund. Existing investor K9 Ventures also participated. […]

April 13, 2016

Having a hard time raising money from investors? Here’s an alternative approach that may be worth trying: try pitching to your peers. Village Capital (or “VilCap” for short) is accepting applications for its Education US 2016 “venture development” program, organized […]

March 25, 2016

The U.S. Education Department has cleared the way for former students at 91 campuses once owned by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges to have their loan debt forgiven, the department announced on Friday. The campuses, which fell under Corinthian’s Everest and […]

March 24, 2016

Nearly nine months after the start of Pennsylvania’s fiscal year, the state’s budget deadlock came to an end on Wednesday, with Gov. Tom Wolf withdrawing a veto threat on Republican-backed legislation and public colleges and universities among the recipients of […]

March 9, 2016

here are many things colleges and universities cannot control when it comes to affordability, but improving estimates for college costs and providing more support and guidance for students who receive financial aid are two areas well within the realm of […]

March 1, 2016

Idaho’s public schools are on track to receive a 7.4 percent budget increase under a plan from the Legislature’s budget-setting committee. The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved a 6.8 percent boost — about $100.3 million — for public schools on Monday […]

February 25, 2016

Stanford University has received its largest cash donation from an individual in its history — $400 million from Philip H. Knight, the Nike co-founder. The gift will be part of a $750-million endowment to establish a “graduate-level scholarship designed to […]

February 19, 2016

Facing a $940 million budget deficit, Louisiana will stop funding its merit-based scholarship program for the rest of the year. And if the Legislature doesn’t find new sources of revenue by June, Louisiana’s commissioner of higher education warned, the state’s […]

February 18, 2016

In most states, public funding for higher education has not recovered in the wake of the last recession. And odds are that state disinvestment will get worse after the next economic downturn, according to New America. That, in turn, means […]

February 16, 2016

President Barack Obama’s $4.1 trillion 2017 fiscal year budget includes big plans for US education. The president believes that real opportunities begin with education, so his budget plan has set aside $69.4 billion in unrestricted funding for the Department of Education. One […]