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At Ronald D. O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Nearly 90 percent of the school population is considered low-income and nearly three-quarters are labeled English learners, meaning that the state language arts test assesses their reading and writing ability in a language they’re still trying to learn. This story also appeared in Daily Herald Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. A fifth of Centennial’s student body is considered low-income, and 17 percent get extra supports as they learn English. The state has celebrated Centennial for “exemplary academic performance.” It designates O’Neal as a school in need of targeted assistance. But despite its low performance and its students’ needs, O’Neal received $9,094 per student in 2019 in state and local funding compared to Cen...

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Sunil Ahuja , associate provost for academic affairs at the University of Scranton, in Pennsylvania, has been appointed provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at Shawnee State University, in Ohio. Glenn Cerny , vice president and chief financial officer at Schoolcraft College, in Michigan, has been appointed president there. DeAnnia Clements , associate vice president for academic affairs at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College, has been promoted to vice president for academic affairs there. Tammeil Gilkerson , president of Laney College, in California, has been selected as president of Evergreen Valley College, also in California. Stephen H. Kolison Jr. , executive vice president and provost at the University of Indianapolis, has been named president of the State University of New York at Fredonia. Mary Pedersen , interim provost at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, has been named to serve as the next provost and executive vice pr...

Advocates of a new Bavarian law that could usher in more U.S.-style stratification of universities and allow institutions to charge international students fees hope that the rest of Germany will soon follow suit. The changes are being personally championed by Markus Söder, Bavaria’s conservative state premier and one of the frontrunners to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor. He has urged rectors to embrace “more freedom” and strengthen the “innovation potential” of universities. Wolfgang Herrmann, former president of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and one of the key players pushing for the new law, hoped that the state would become a “role model” for the rest of Germany. “If Bavaria gets a modern university law, I’m sure other states will come along,” he said. The reforms in Bavaria, Germany’s second richest state and home to industrial titans including BMW, Siemens and Audi, would mark a clear break with Germany’s existing higher education system. Despite efforts to ...

While college administrators and decision makers have stressed that they are taking the COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant health and safety concerns very seriously, there has been an underlying assumption: students -- if they catch the disease -- will be fine. “At least 80 percent of our population is made up of young people, say, 35 and under. All data to date tell us that the COVID-19 virus, while it transmits rapidly in this age group, poses close to zero lethal threat to them,” Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University, said in a letter to campus in April, expressing an intent to reopen. “Literally, our students pose a far greater danger to others than the virus poses to them.” New information released in the months since then has complicated that picture. Increasing evidence suggests that some portion of people who are infected with COVID-19 will continue to experience symptoms of the illness weeks -- or even months -- later, even if they are young or have a mi...

Four years ago, officials in Nevada’s higher education system were accused of misleading state lawmakers as the Legislature was thinking about changing the way colleges and universities were being funded. Now, legislators are asking voters in this year’s elections to strip the Nevada System of Higher Education’s Board of Regents of its autonomy under the state’s constitution, a move proponents say would free the Legislature to reform the body. The proposal is among the three main ballot measures affecting higher education institutions before voters next week (aside from a California proposal to restore affirmative action). In North Dakota, voters will decide whether to nearly double the size of its higher education commission in the hopes it will allow the body to do more to improve the state’s colleges and universities. New Mexico voters are being asked to approve a $156 million bond measure to fund construction projects at the state’s institutions, including $30 mil...

Viewed solely as a political advertisement on social media this election year, it would be largely unremarkable. A tightly framed photo shows President Donald Trump, eyes closed, hands folded. Several people lay hands on his shoulders. Text above the photo cites the Bible -- the First Epistle of Paul to Timothy -- and reads, “Pray for Our President.” But the advertisement is unusual because of the organization purchasing it. That organization is the Falkirk Center, a subsidiary of the private nonprofit Liberty University. And it is highly irregular for nonprofit colleges or universities to purchase advertisements that come even close to the appearance of endorsing specific candidates for office. In part, that’s because the portion of the tax code under which most private universities are registered as nonprofits forbids backing political candidates for office. It’s also a question of public relations, reputation and norms. “Most institutions are very skittish about playing too c...