FROM THE NY TIMES: School Suspensions Lead to Legal Challenge + Bill Proposes Increased Aid to the Needy for College +Despite Gains, Charter School Is Told to Close + Barriers Found to College Degrees for Hispanics

 

School Suspensions Lead to Legal Challenge

By ERIK ECKHOLM | NY Times

Jeremy Lange for The New York Times

Viktoria King was tutored at home after she was suspended for a semester for fighting at her school in Chocowinity, N.C.

Racial and constitutional questions are raised in the suspension of students after a fight at their high school.

Bill Proposes Increased Aid to the Needy for College

By TAMAR LEWIN | NY Times

The federal government would increase financing for Pell grants by $36 billion over 10 years under a Democratic plan.

Despite Gains, Charter School Is Told to Close

By TRIP GABRIEL | NY Times

As New York State moves to shut down an Albany charter school, it is apparent that holding schools accountable is not always so easy, or bloodless, as numbers on a page.

• Times Topics: Charter Schools

Barriers Found to College Degrees for Hispanics

By JACQUES STEINBERG | NY Times

Fewer Hispanic students earned degrees even at both competitive and less competitive colleges nationwide, the American Enterprise Institute found.