WACAC—Western Association for College Admission Counseling

Last week, Harris Miller, the president of the Career College Association (CCA), made an unusual request of the U.S. Department of Education. He asked the agency to bring only his group’s members to the table when it starts negotiating changes to regulations designed to protect students from unscrupulous trade schools. 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit challenging a policy that allows some illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition to attend California’s public colleges and universities.

Senator Barack Obama, responding in part to new competition for the women’s vote from Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, outlined his plan to overhaul education yesterday, pledging to double federal funding for public charter schools, spend $500 million to upgrade school technology, and award merit pay for teachers, including higher salaries for math and science instructors.