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Trustees in the Santa Paula Elementary School District have announced that a Kern County superintendent will become its next chief. F. Paul Chounet was appointed superintendent of the K-8 district of 3,600 students, the school board announced Thursday night. He will start July 1. Chounet was born and raised in central California, Santa Paula officials [...]
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education approved a 5 percent tuition increase Friday for East Central University students for the 2011-12 academic year. ECU did not raise any student fees. Undergraduate tuition will increase by $110.70 more per semester, based on a typical 15-hour semester. Graduate students enrolled in a typical 12-hour semester will [...]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal fresh fruit and vegetable program aimed at promoting healthy snack options is doling out a total of $2.65 million in 128 Kentucky elementary schools for the 2011-12 school year. Schools chosen to participate will receive the equivalent of $52 per student to operate the program. The Kentucky Department of [...]
Bill Powers, president of the University of Texas at Austin? Lazy. Needs to teach more. Thats the conclusion of a much-criticized productivity study Bill Powers, president of UT Austin. by a Washington, D.C.-based think tank called the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The study analyzed reams of data on teaching loads and research grants released for every faculty member at [...]