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Audit: ND university awarded unearned degrees

Lax recordkeeping and oversight resulted in hundreds of degrees being awarded to students who didn’t finish their course work. Others enrolled who couldn’t speak English or hadn’t achieved the “C” average normally required for admission. The audit report depicts Dickinson … Continue reading

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Schools lose records; English learners pay (US)

Poor recordkeeping keeps California schools from getting all of the funding that they have coming, a failing that especially hurts English learners, according to research from the University of California, Davis, School of Education.

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Lax oversight of school construction raises doubts about earthquake safety (US)

This article in California Watch delivers background to an emerging story set to cause a huge public outcry. Major feature: sloppy incomplete recordkeeping. State regulators have routinely failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children … Continue reading

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