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Search results for "Federal Department of Education" ...
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Secrecy 101
"Universities hide information about their athletics departments behind a student-privacy law designed to keep grades private." Further, it hides athletes, who have done a number of unethical and some illegal activities. Also, coaches are using the law to hide their own bad behavior. All this information stunned the senator who created the law and he believes the "institutions are putting their own meaning into the law."
Tags: education; college; Senator James L. Buckley; NCAA; Ohio State; FOIA; Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); federal; sports; public records; censor; academics
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Clery Crime Reporting Errors
"Stories documented the university's failure to disclose sex offenses, burglaries and other crimes on the Tarleton campus. None of 10 sex offenses reported by federal law, to DOE. Further, the university disclosed only about half of the burglaries that took place on campus".
Tags: college; education; students; crime; police; law enforcement; records; underreported; university; Department of Education(DOE)
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"Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice"
Unfortunately, sexual assault occurs on campuses all over the U.S. For the small number of those who come forward to report the act, institutional policies can often make the process toward accountability difficult, sometimes even causing the victim to drop the claim. The Center for Public Integrity finds that most university policies are lacking in "transparency" and often lead to less the harsh punishment for the accused attackers.
Tags: Title IX; Clery Act; federal Department of Education; sexual violence; FERPA; Security on Campus Inc; Victim Rights Law Center
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The Robert Felner Investigation
Dr. Robert Felner was raided by federal agents his last day as the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development University of Louisville. He was to become Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Parkside but was under question about a $500,000 grant.
Tags: Department of Education; No Child Left Behind; Curriculum Vitae; National Center for Public Education and Prevention; payroll
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Student Loan Scandal
The story package revealed "improper payoffs from a student loan company to college financial aid officers, as well as to a key official at the U.S. Department of Education who was in charge of overseeing the lenders that participate in the federal guaranteed student-loan program."
Tags: student loans; improper payoffs; college financial aid; lenders
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Federal Government Propaganda
The series began with the breaking news that the Bush administration paid pundit Armstrong Williams $240,000 to endorse its "No Child Left Behind" education law. The authors extended their investigation to look at how the government spends millions of dollars in taxpayer money to secretly sell America on a few of its most controversial policies.
Tags: Federal government; handouts; No Child Left Behind; education; FOIA; propaganda; Education Department
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Missing: Children at Risk
This yearlong investigation looked at mistakes police, the federal government and the national news media make in reporting missing children. Among the findings were that many police departments violate federal law by not immediately reporting missing children to state authorities, and that the National Child Search Assistance Act, passed by Congress in 1990, is largely ignored.
Tags: state government; federal government; children; kidnapping; amber alert; education; National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; National Child Search Assistance Act
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Wrongdoing in Wilmer-Hutchins
Using a hidden camera and the unpaid help of a mold remediation expert, reporters at KDFW exposed severe problems with the Wilmer-Hutchins district high school. News cameras also caught the district using illegal immigrants instead of mold remediation specialists to repair building problems. The investigation also lead to the discovery of mismanagement and fraud in the school district's leadership and its financial records. As a result of this report, a state education agency audit followed, along with investigations by the FBI, IRS, U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour division, and the Federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Throughout the investigation, district officials denied any wrongdoing, refused to hand over documents, and were eventually charged with tampering with evidence in the federal investigations.
Tags: standardized testing; bonds; mismanagement of funds; Wilmer-Hutchins school district
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East St. Louis Test Cheating
This series of stories documented how the East St. Louis School District deliberately excluded nearly 160 special needs students from required standardized tests to boost overall school test scores. This represented a major violation of state and federal laws governing the provision of services for the disabled.
Tags: East St. Louis School District; special education; testing; cheating; standardized tests; Illinois Standards Achievement Test; No Child Left Behind; test scores; Illinois State Board of Education; Prairie State Achievement Exam; Chicago Public Schools; Illinois Standards Achievement Test; U.S. Education Department; Iowa Tests of Basic Skills
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Classroom Confidential
This set of four stories looks at some major problems at the public Charter Schools in the Dallas area. The reports discovered problems with the time cards, teachers qualifications, school expenses and rampant cheating on state exams. Shortly after this aired, the DA's office began an investigation on the schools.
Tags: Public schools; Dallas public schools; FOIA; Federal Department of Education; Public Charter Schools