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Penn State revenue decline traced to renewal fees

By GENARO C. ARMAS - Associated Press

**FILE** President Obama signs an executive order for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 26, 2010. (Associated Press)

Black schools may sue Obama administration over new loan rules

By Joshua Eferighe - The Washington Times

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LEHMAN: Obama’s student-loan repayment racket

By Philip Lehman IV

Dunbar Senior High School on New Jersey Avenue in Northwest is one of the high schools in the nation’s capital. The District’s public schools had the worst four-year high school graduation rate in the country 2010-2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

D.C. last in nation in rate of high school graduation

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

For big-budget Penn St, fine not as big as seems

By RACHEL COHEN - Associated Press

** FILE ** Students, friends and family hold up candles during a vigil on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., on Thursday, April 16, 2009, to mark the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

DOE judge vacates fines against Virginia Tech

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Illustration: GOP education by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

DAVENPORT: Republicans’ primary choice: The Constitution or the money

By David Davenport - The Washington Times

Virginia Tech fined $55,000 for response to shootings

By Deena Potter - Associated Press

Illustration: Department of Education

BILLINGSLEY: Education payouts lack payoff

By K. Lloyd Billingsley - The Washington Times

Feds: Va. Tech violated law during 2007 shootings

By Dena Potter - Associated Press

Illustration: Department of Education by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

RAHN: Put Department of Education in timeout

By Richard W. Rahn - The Washington Times

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Education Secretary Arne Duncan reads to students at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in Southwest on Wednesday during a weekly “power lunch” literacy-and-mentoring program with Education Department officials.

CONDA: Crashing the classroom

By Cesar Conda - The Washington Times

Education inventors get boost under new programs

By KATHY MATHESON - Associated Press

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Online learning gains approval