Education Department touts settlement as ‘model’ for campus sex assault policies

By Kristen Lombardi

The U.S. Department of Education says two recent settlements will serve as a new model for how colleges, universities, and the department de

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"… tiate similar actions against three more universities in the next year. …"

Center and NPR win RFK journalism award for campus assault project

Prestigious RFK award goes to campus assault project by Center for Public Integrity and NPR

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"… ardi.  “It spurred congressional action on Capitol Hill and led the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen its oversight of how colleges and universities handle campus …"

Center collaboration with NPR wins Peabody Award

A Center for Public Integrity collaboration with NPR was recognized with a Peabody award for NPR

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"… ic policy, inspiring congressional action on Capitol Hill, and leading the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen its oversight of how colleges and universities handle campus …"

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The battle for Wheatland

By Dusty Smith and M.J. Zuckerman

The Wheatland Manor House was built 35 years before the Revolutionary War. The farmland surrounding it served as a focal point of a small co

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"… at’s going on with the school system and its land purchases. And now the U.S. Department of Education’s inspector general and the FBI are investigating as well.Controversial …"

"… ators regarding the Wheatland matter and other LCPS land acquisitions. The U.S. Department of Education inspector general’s office has jurisdiction over federal funds spent by …"

SOLUTIONS: Funding channel for military schools already exists

By John Forkenbrock

The director of the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools believes an adequate funding channel for military schools alrtered

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"… public school facilities. There is no staff dedicated to this issue at the U.S. Department of Education … it is considered a local school district responsibility.”The notion …"

Some nonprofit student lenders accused of misconduct

Nonprofit lenders in at least 10 states ran afoul of state and federal rules between 1993 and 2008

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"… llions of dollars in unwarranted federal subsidies. In September, the U.S. Department of Education ordered a nonprofit lender in Iowa to pay $15.8 million for making illegal …"

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An epidemic of expulsions

By Susan Ferriss

Kern County, California at ground zero in debate over school discipline

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"… s African American students, according to data the school submitted to the U.S. Department of Education as part of a national survey for its Office for Civil Rights.Numbers aside …"

"… ate educators collaborating on ways to reform disciplinary procedures. The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Deli …"

New federal statistics reveal harsh discipline for minority students

By Susan Ferriss

New federal statistics reveal blacks, Latinos students face harsher punishments than whites

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"… sis of statistics from more than 72,000 schools that were submitted to the U.S. Department of Education.The grouping of statistics, last gathered nationally in 2006, is called th …"

New federal discipline data has more bad news for Kern County schools

By Susan Ferriss

New federal stats show harsh punishment for African-American students

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"… ons and 29 percent of all expulsions. The statistics were submitted to the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection by the schools themselves.The data also s …"

"… turned in by schools serving about 85 percent of all American students.The U.S. Department of Education’s analysis of numbers showed that while African Americans were 18 percen …"

Kern expulsions figure into California debate on proposed legislation

By Susan Ferriss

Report on Kern County's student expulsion patterns informs debate on reform proposals before California legislators.

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"… hat often paves the way for expulsion. Statistics released in March by the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection showed high rates of suspension and expul …"

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