Two analysts boosted their price targets for Career Education Corp. Monday, after the for-profit education company reported its fourth-quarter income tripled and trumped Wall Street expectations, on new student enrollment.
Shares of Career Education surged $1.18, or 5 percent, to close at $24.80. The stock hit a fresh 52-week high of $25.40 earlier in the session.
On [...]
Mayor Richard Daley returned to a trusted old hand today, appointing Michael Scott to the Chicago Board of Education and recommending Scott be elected board president for a second time.
The move was telegraphed last week, when Rufus Williams told the Tribune he was resigning as board president Friday to make room for Scott.
Williams said he [...]
2008 brought us new hopes for education with the election of a new president. it also brought is many reminders that we have a long way to go. Enjoy this year in Review and slideshow.
In January, College applications hit an all time high. The surge is probably due to students applying to more [...]
Mayor Tom Leppert is donating the remainder of his official annual salary, $10,000, to Destination: Graduation.
“This is a program with a proven track record that is making a difference in schools with high number of economically disadvantaged kids,” said Mayor Leppert. “It’s a solid and innovative program that not only gets students through high school, [...]
Editor’s Note: Education is a civil rights issue and the San Francisco school district is trying to close the achievement gap reports Annette Fuentes who covers education for New America Media.
Education the “greatest civil rights issue of our time,” said San Francisco Schools Superintendent Carlos Garcia. He was addressing a hearing on public school reform [...]
Guided by the best values of journalism past while inspired by a new vision of news in the digital age, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is on a bold mission: To reinvent journalism education at a time when the news media has been simultaneously never more important [...]
School issues haven’t drawn as much attention in the presidential race as many educators would like. But there are differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on education. And such issues figure in state and congressional races, as well as in state ballot proposals.
Education will be on the ballot Nov. 4, even if the [...]
Cesar Juarez rides the bus to school like so many college students — head against the glass, earphones streaming down his olive jacket, eyes straight ahead.
The 22-year-old was a full-time student until this semester, when he and his family discovered they were facing possible foreclosure on their San Jose home. That reality has left him [...]
The comments by Cook County Assessor James Houlihan (“If you care about schools and property taxes ?,” Commentary, Oct. 17) clamor to be supported by numbers. Currently, about 63 percent of your property tax bill pays for public schools and the state of Illinois pays an additional 28 percent. With those numbers, one can calculate [...]
Here’s the biggest difference between the education plans of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama: $18 billion.
That’s how much more Democrat Obama says he’d spend than Republican McCain to transform schools, from quadrupling the number of kids eligible for public preschool programs to strengthening long-neglected science education. Obama claims he can implement his long [...]
