Claudio Sanchez

College Students Eye Calendar, Wait To See If Loan Rates Double

Claudio Sanchez — Thu, 23 May 2013 08:38:00 +0000

College students could end up paying a higher interest rate on their government subsidized loans unless Congress steps in. In a replay of last year's battle, Republicans, Democrats and the Obama administration all have competing proposals. A vote is scheduled in the House of Representatives Thursday, but with no consensus in sight, it's not at all clear if lawmakers can keep interest rates from doubling on July 1.

Long-Lost Memo Stirs Allegation Of Cheating In D.C. Schools

Claudio Sanchez — Mon, 06 May 2013 20:57:00 +0000

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For years now, Washington, D.C., school officials have been under pressure to fully investigate allegations of inflated test scores, cheating and possibly a cover up. At the center of it all is Michelle Rhee. She's the fiery former school chancellor who based much of her success on dramatic gains in kids' reading and math scores. Those gains are now suspect.

30 Years On, Educators Still Divided On Scathing Schools Report

Claudio Sanchez — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:07:00 +0000

Thirty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan's administration released "A Nation at Risk," a report warning of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in American public education.

According to the report, only one-third of 17-year-olds in 1983 could solve a math problem requiring two steps or more, and 4 out of 10 teenagers couldn't draw inferences from written material.

El Paso Schools Cheating Scandal Probes Officials' Accountability

Claudio Sanchez — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:30:00 +0000

No one knows if Atlanta's school superintendent or any of the people accused of falsifying test results will go to jail, but they wouldn't be the first if they do.

Lorenzo Garcia, the former superintendent of schools in El Paso, Texas, has been sitting in a federal prison since last year.

Survey: More Pell Grant Recipients Are Nontraditional Students

Claudio Sanchez — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:42:00 +0000

The federal government each year gives needy college students billions of dollars they don't have to pay back — $34.5 billion to be exact. More than 9 million students rely on the Pell Grant program. But a new study says much of the money is going to people who never graduate.

Sandy Baum, an expert on student financial aid, has been leading a group in a study of the 48-year-old Pell Grant program.

NRA Task Force Issues Plan For School Safety

Claudio Sanchez — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:34:00 +0000

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And I'm David Greene. Good morning.

Today, we have dispatches from the fight over gun control.

INSKEEP: President Obama visits Colorado today. He's trying to regain momentum for new federal gun laws, as we'll hear in a moment.

GREENE: We begin with the National Rifle Association.

After Newtown Shooting, New Attention Focused On Armed School Officers

Claudio Sanchez — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:56:00 +0000

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And I'm Robert Siegel. The school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut has forced all of us to grapple with some tough questions about our culture, about access to guns, and about the safety of our schools. On that last count, soon after Newtown, the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre famously called for armed police officers in every school. Well, the fact is, many schools already have them. They're called school resource officers, or SROs.

Snow Storm Doesn't Live Up To Its Hype In Nation's Capital

Claudio Sanchez — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:30:00 +0000

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CLAUDIO SANCHEZ, BYLINE: This is Claudio Sanchez in Washington, D.C. By mid-afternoon, some parts of west and northern Virginia had gotten a foot of snow. Washington, D.C. was expecting at least half that, so area airports cancelled more than a thousand flights. Schools closed. So did federal and local government offices.

Sequester Spells Uncertainty For Many Public Schools

Claudio Sanchez — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:59:00 +0000

If Congress and the Obama administration can't agree on a budget deal by Friday, the federal government will be forced to cut $85 billion from just about every federally funded program. Every state could lose federal aid, and a myriad of government programs could shut down or curtail services — and that includes the nation's public schools.

There is one bit of good news for schools: Because most federal aid to schools is forward-funded, the cuts triggered by sequestration would not hit classrooms until September at the earliest.

Schools Reexamine Security After Newtown Shooting

Claudio Sanchez — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:14:00 +0000

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

In the aftermath of Newtown, school officials and parents across the country were asking themselves the same question today: How safe is my school? NPR's Claudio Sanchez has that story.

CLAUDIO SANCHEZ, BYLINE: In Nashville, Tennessee, Ruth Rosenberg asked her daughter's first-grade teacher what school was going to be like today.

In California, Parents Trigger Change At Failing School

Claudio Sanchez — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:15:00 +0000

Parents in one small California community have used a "parent-trigger" law for the first time to shut down and take over an elementary school.

Online Courses Force Changes To Higher Education

Claudio Sanchez — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:32:00 +0000

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There is a lot of speculation now about what issues - big and small - the Obama administration should tackle in its second term. Education is one thing on many of those lists, and in Washington yesterday, the talk was about one of the hottest trends in the field - something called MOOCS.

Firestorm Erupts Over Virginia's Education Goals

Claudio Sanchez — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:05:00 +0000

As part of Virginia's waiver to opt out of mandates set out in the No Child Left Behind law, the state has created a controversial new set of education goals that are higher for white and Asian kids than for blacks, Latinos and students with disabilities.

Virginia Democratic state Sen.

Contraception, Pell Grants 'In Context' After Debate

Claudio Sanchez — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:24:00 +0000

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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

I'm Robert Siegel. And we're going to take some time now to put a couple of assertions from last night's presidential debate in context. And here in the studio to help us out are NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner and NPR education correspondent Claudio Sanchez. Nice to see both of you here.

CLAUDIO SANCHEZ, BYLINE: Good to be here.

JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: Nice to be here.

SIEGEL: And, Julie, first to you.

Obama, Romney On Higher Ed Help: Dueling Visions

Claudio Sanchez — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Many Americans today feel like they've lost or are losing their shot at a college education because paying for it often seems out of reach. So how big of an issue is this in the presidential campaign?

Here's what President Obama has done to help families pay for college: He negotiated a deal with Congress this summer that kept the interest rate on government-backed Stafford loans from doubling for 7.5 million students.

Obama's income-based repayment plan will eventually cap students' loan payments at 10 percent of discretionary monthly income.