New Orleans There was an interesting article in the paper today touting the calculator on the United States Department of Education (DOE) website. They claimed that it would be helpful in figuring out the real costs of education at various institutions. Sometimes they said, some universities might seem to expense to lower income students evaluating …
Category: Education
The Future is Now for Charter-man Barr to Apologize for McDonogh Oprah TV Exploitation
New Orleans I am a veteran (victim?) of four years of high school Latin during my time in the New Orleans public school system. One of Dr. Romeo’s classic often repeated quotations that is imprinted forever in my mind was his argument that he was not in loco parentis, meaning in his argument that he was …
Economy and Growing Senior Populations Factor into Decreased State Higher Ed Funding
New Orleans For many of the blamers and “bootstrappers” who like to lay the growing income and inequality divide on the poor themselves rather than federal and state tax and budget policy, the solution is invariably, “why don’t they go to school.” The answer is increasingly that crippled public schools are leaving lower income students unprepared …