Tuition
IT Infrastructure & Management
Internet Site Matches Students and Colleges
Auctions aren’t just for farmers and their livestock anymore. A new Internet site that launched its interactive matching process this month now allows price-conscious students and their parents to bid on a college education.
School Choice & Charters
Court Excludes Religious Schools From 'Tuitioning'
Maine parents whose children attend religious schools cannot be reimbursed under a state program that provides tuition for students from towns without their own high schools, the state's highest court has ruled.
School Choice & Charters
As Tuition Climbs, More States Ponder College-Aid Plans
With concerns over the cost of college rising as fast as tuition itself, state leaders from Maine to Montana are making plans for a tidal wave of new college-aid programs. But some experts wonder whether the financial help will reach the neediest students.
School Choice & Charters
Alarm on Escalating College Costs Sounded
If the nation's educational and political leaders don't act soon to curtail the skyrocketing costs of higher education, millions of students wishing to pursue college degrees could be shut out of the system by 2015, according to a report released last week.
School Choice & Charters
Lawmakers Eyeing Prepaid-Tuition Plans Anew
When her husband died suddenly five years ago, Sally Gilliland, a Bradenton, Fla., mother of two, says she spent no time worrying about covering her college-bound sons' education on a nurse's salary.
School Choice & Charters
In a Setback for Crew, N.Y. Court Reinstates Bronx School Board
A power struggle between the New York City schools chancellor and a local Bronx school board has ended with the trustees' reinstatement and a deal granting their ousted superintendent about $40,000 in back pay.
School Choice & Charters
Clinton Urges College Presidents To Lower Tuition
President Clinton urged higher-education leaders last week to curb their institutions' tuition costs in an effort to maintain access for low- and moderate-income students.
Education
D.C. Refusing To Pay Tuition Hikes for Disabled Students
District of Columbia school officials, trying to curb the cost of sending disabled children to private schools, have balked at paying tuition increases.
Education
Andover Creates Plan for Parents To Prepay Tuition
The Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., has instituted a tuition-prepayment plan modeled after similar plans offered by a growing number of colleges and universities.
School Choice & Charters
Vermont's 'Tuitioning' Is Nation's Oldest Brand of Choice
More than a hundred years before the term "educational choice'' became a buzzword for reformers, an experiment began in the small towns of Vermont, born of necessity and fueled by Vermonters' legendary penchant for thriftiness and independence.
Education
Private Schools Will Increase Tuition If Tax Credit
The Reagan Administration's tuition tax-credit proposal, which the President has said will allow a family "to keep a bit more of the money it earns for itself," may actually create a federal subsidy for private schools, several independent economists have concluded.
Education Funding
Opinion
Education Cannot Afford Tuition Tax Credits
Occasionally, the argument for a tuition tax credit is presented in terms of high-minded altruism, as if it were designed primarily to get little ghetto children into the prestigious preparatory schools or to revolutionize somehow elementary and secondary education through a little competition.
Education Funding
Opinion
... And Embody 'Dangerous Palliatives' for the Public Schools
Supporters of tuition tax credits generally share several assumptions about the state of the world. In fact, their support for such proposals seems predicated more on acts of ideological faith than on any evaluation of the risks and potential benefits of tax credits themselves. These risks are not insignificant, especially if you do not share the rosy assumptions of the tax-credit supporters.
School Choice & Charters
Opinion
Accepting the Challenge of Tuition Tax Credits
October's election results in Washington, D.C., brought public education across the nation both a cause for celebration and a mandate for some essential nose-to-the-grindstone work.