EEUU: Money for tutoring, a deal to ease transfers, new textbooks: What’s new in education

EEUU/November 11, 2017/By: Joy Resmovits/Source: http://www.latimes.com

In and around Los Angeles:

  • Los Angeles will receive an $11.2-million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for tutoring and summer school.
  • The L.A. Community College District signed an agreement with Loyola Marymount University to encourage more transfers and curricular continuity.

In California:

  • The state’s public colleges are trying to fix the transfer process.
  • Hundreds of people spoke out before the Board of Education voted to approve new textbooks to satisfy the state’s history social science guidelines.

Nationwide:

  • Private colleges are expected to outpace public universities in tuition revenue growth for the first time in a decade.
  • After some pushback, schools in Spokane, Wash., will not use Planned Parenthood’s sex education curriculum.

Source:

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-essential-education-updates-southern-l-a-s-tutoring-grant-easing-1510327577-htmlstory.html

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