The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a new taxpayer-funded college scholarship program known as D.C. Promise, which will offer high school graduates up to $7,500 per year to help pay for higher education. David A. Catania (I-At Large), who i
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as "prevar
Continue reading >>Students at Marion County’s River Valley High School arrived today to find 25 trees chopped off at their bases. Students at the school said the trees were cut as part of the Class of 2014’s senior prank. The Marion County sheriff’s office is int
Continue reading >>Tuition and fees for new Virginia students at the College of William and Mary in the next school year will be 14 percent higher than the in-state price for current freshmen, echoing a major increase approved the year before. The public college in W
Continue reading >>CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming, the nation's top coal-producing state, is the first to reject new K-12 science standards proposed by national education groups mainly because of global warming components. The Wyoming Board of Education decided recent
Continue reading >>STORRS, Conn. (AP) — A sorority accused of forcing a member to lie on the floor and "sizzle like bacon," then drink alcohol until she passed out has been banned from the University of Connecticut. The school sent its Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter a let
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