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Bush also wants to expand Pell Grants--federal grants to financial aid students--and has proposed "education savings accounts" through which parents would be given a $5,000 each year to save for their children's tuition...
...plan, schools that receive Title 1 money from Washington would be given three years to meet standards. If they failed, Bush would cut up their Title 1 money and give it directly to parents in the form of $1,500 vouchers that could be spent on tutoring or tuition at another public, private or parochial school. The idea is to liberate kids and shame schools into shaping up. But it also contradicts the rest of Bush's proposal, since private schools abide by none of the accountability measures so dear to the Governor. His solution would allow students to flee...
...loony notion of free-market zealots, for-profit schools are fast winning support and jolting the $360 billion public school market, the last major sector of the U.S. economy to feel the lash of competition. The very notion seems heretical: public schools run by private companies that charge no tuition but operate classrooms for local school boards or independent chartering organizations using taxpayer money--some of which will go to shareholders as (gasp!) profit...
...Tuition for adults is $320 a week, and the children's fee is a mere $85. Grown-ups pay $240 for food and dorm housing, and children can bunk with parents for free (call 828-298-3434, or visit www.swangathering.org for more information). Youngsters have breakfast and lunch with their parents and spend most of the day with children's program leader Denisa Rullmoss and her assistants. Kids visit a nearby nature center, explore the creeks and woods in the surrounding area, make candles, learn songs and play several kinds of instruments. They are not only exposed to a variety...
...games this season for alleged rules violations that occurred while they were still in high school. Most notably, St. John's University's star point guard, Erick Barkley, was suspended for taking $3,150 in scholarship aid from a church group to help offset his $23,500 prep-school tuition. "We feel that a lot of these players are getting a bad reputation and are being vilified in the eyes of the public when, in fact, nothing morally wrong has occurred," says Duke's Shane Battier, the SBC's inaugural chairman and an academic all-American...