PA: Cheating teachers to see disciplinary action

By   /  September 21, 2012  /  Accountability, Education Temp 4, Ethics, Featured, News, Pennsylvania  /  No Comments

More than 100 educators in Pennsylvania's public schools could lose their certificates in connection with cheating scandals where they changed student answers on state exams.

By Melissa Daniels | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — More than 100 Pennsylvania educators could be on the hook for losing their state certifications as fallout from a statewide cheating scandal.
Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis said Friday the state will soon take disciplinary actions against “easily over 100” teachers and administrators who are suspected of changing answers on [...]

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PA: AG says make Penn State comply with freedom of information law

By   /  July 26, 2012  /  Accountability, Education, Education Temp 4, Ethics, Events, Featured, Legislature, Open Records, Pennsylvania, Power Abuse, State Budgets, State Government, State Politics, Transparency, Transparency  /  No Comments

Penn State's "Old Main" administrative building. If the PA legislature follows Auditor General Jack Wagner's wishes, the embattled university will have to make public most of its internal documents.

By Jared Sichel | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top auditor has a message for Penn State — things must change.
Thursday, Auditor General Jack Wagner called on the Legislature to order the troubled university to comply with the state’s Right-to-Know law.
“I would hope that this would be a priority in September, and the General Assembly could deal [...]

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Eddy poised to grab even more IL taxpayer money

By   /  March 16, 2012  /  Education Temp 4, IL House, Illinois, Illinois Budget, Illinois Statehouse News  /  1 Comment

By Scott Reeder | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — State Rep. Roger Eddy will retire from public life a wealthy man — courtesy of the Illinois taxpayers and the state’s public school teachers.

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College Illinois! could get shot of taxpayer cash

By   /  February 16, 2012  /  Education Temp 4, Illinois, Illinois Statehouse News, Local News, State Government  /  No Comments

 
By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ distressed prepaid tuition program could receive a cash infusion from taxpayers, even though it is not backed by the state.

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Increased IL higher ed funding goes to pensions

By   /  January 24, 2012  /  Education Temp 4, Illinois, Illinois Statehouse News, Local News  /  6 Comments

 
By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News

SPRINGFIELD — llinois’ 12 percent increase in higher education spending this year isn’t going to benefit students. Instead, the additional funding for fiscal 2012 is going into the State Universities Retirement System, or SURS, to address its underfunded pension program.

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