By Oliver Staley Public spending per student on U.S. education fell in fiscal 2011, the first annual decline since at least 1977, as tax revenue dried up. The U.S. spent an average $10,560 per student in public schools in 2011,...
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Graduating students listen as President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address at Morehouse College on May 19, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Student Spending’s First Drop Since 1977
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District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray in this file photo.
Washington’s Mayor Sees Bright Side
Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, who is under investigation for allegations of misusing campaign funds, was upbeat and optimistic about his tenure over lunch at the Georgetown Ritz Carlton. Gray was the guest and interview subject of Washingtonian editor-at-large Carol Joynt...
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Graduates wearing mortarboards attend Syracuse University's commencement ceremony.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 40.6 Million
That’s the number of Americans age 25 and older in 2012 whose highest level of education was a bachelor’s degree, according to the Census Bureau. That’s about one-fifth of the civilian non-institutionalized population of 204.6 million, Census data show. Women...
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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference.
Jeb Bush’s American `Restoration’
The divide between the impoverished and privileged in the United States is widening, with a society of once great ideals following a disturbing path toward an unsustainable future — a nation in need of “restoration.” A new regime of educational...
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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush on the final day of the Republican National Convention (RNC).
Jeb Bush: `Here’ for Education
Updated at 1:15 pm EST Jeb Bush is in town. The former Florida governor, brother of one former president and son of another, is encamped in Washington — in a hotel just a few blocks from the White House, as...
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Ann Romney, Mitt Romney and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondhi during a rally at Tradition Town Square in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Ann Romney: `Throw Out’ Education System — Good Housekeeping
Ann Romney wants to `throw out’ the education system. At least, that’s what she says in an interview with Good Housekeeping magazine which, a little more than one week before the presidential election, is likely to get plenty of attention...
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Mitt Romney will pay for running mate Paul Ryan’s budget, if the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama has anything to say about it. President Barack Obama will pay for his health-care act, if one of the super-PACs backing Romney has...
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Employees monitor the production of construction machinery at Sany Heavy Industry Co.'s assembly shop in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Chamber’s Chavern: ‘Activism’ in Education, not ‘China-Bashing’
Republican Mitt Romney has pledged, on Day One of his presidency, to label China a currency manipulator. David Chavern, chief operating officer of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said today: “I don’t love China-bashing.” “Without regard to what party you...
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush takes the stage to speak during the final day of the Republican National Convention.
Bush on Romney: `Nation at Stake’
Jeb Bush has said that this was his “window of opportunity” to run for president. Instead, the former Florida governor is on stage tonight to speak for former Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts at the Republican National Convention in Tampa,...
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Mitt Romney and Ohio Gov. John Kasich arrive for a roundtable discussion with students at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, on April 27, 2012.
Obama to Romney: `Get Real, Mitt’
President Barack Obama’s campaign is telling Mitt Romney to“get real” in a television ad that paints the Republican challenger as out of touch on higher education funding. “Take a risk. Get the education. Borrow money if you have to from...
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