Daily Policy Digest
Education Issues
| 2013 Education Budget and Blueprint: A Costly Expansion of Federal Control The president's FY 2013 budget request includes a 2.5 percent increase (over 2012 levels) for the Department of Education -- the single largest funding increase of any domestic federal department... |
| School Vouchers Gain Ground Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have either voucher systems or "scholarship" programs that provide tax benefits to individuals and businesses for contributions that help pay for students to attend private school... |
| The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates In 2009, the last year for which the federal government has reported data, close to 400 community colleges had graduation rates less than 15 percent... |
| Colleges Shedding Non-Core Operations Over the past decade, state appropriations per full-time student fell more than 20 percent across the country... |
| Does School Choice Reduce Crime? Social cost of crimes for students randomly selected via lottery to attend a chosen high school were $7,084 versus $12,500 for students not selected... |
| Why Do So Many Americans Drop Out of College? According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, just 46 percent of Americans complete college once they start, worst among the 18 countries it tracks... |
| 2012 ABCs of School Choice The 2012 edition of the ABCs of School Choice provides in-depth profiles of each voucher, education savings account, tax-credit scholarship, and individual tax credit or tax deduction program in the United States... |
| U.S. Education Reform and National Security More than 25 percent of students fail to graduate from high school in four years, and for African-American and Hispanic students, this number is approaching 40 percent... |
| Census Data Shows Inequality Linked to Education, Not Taxes Just 8 percent of those at the lowest income level have a college degree while 78 percent of those earning $250,000 or more have a college degree or advanced degree... |
| Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year... |
