Kentucky News - April 5, 2011

• State picking up tab for GED test through June (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• State picking up tab for GED test through June (The News Enterprise)
• Ky. picking up tab for GED test through June (News Channel 5.com)
• Kentucky picking up tab for GED test through June (WSAZ.com)
• State picking up tab for GED test through June (San Antonio Express News)
• State picking up tab for GED test through June (Public Broadcasting. net)
• State picking up tab for GED test through June (Eyewitness News 9)
• Kentucky to cover GED test fee through June 30 (The Courier-Journal)
• Larry Shinn, Berea College President, plans retirement (The Lane Report)
• Berea College president talks about his plans to retire in 2012 (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• UK expects to name new president May 1 (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky schools getting safer, report states (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Kentucky school safety report shows lingering discipline problems in Jefferson County (The Courier-Journal)
• JCPS urged to hire $5,000-a-day expert to help turn around sagging test scores (The Courier-Journal)
• UK presidential search to wrap in early May (The Courier-Journal)
• UK hopes to hire new president in early May (Daily News)
• KCTCS and Campbellsville University to sign transfer agreement (KCTCS)
• Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority college grants available for adult students (KHEAA)
• Looking to take the GED? It's free until June 30 (The News Enterprise)
• Study: Spare time, drinking factors into school performance (USA Today)
• Ex-D.C. schools chief '100%' behind test scores probe (USA Today)
• Colleges scramble to avoid violating federal-aid limit (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Views of who can attend college are deeply divided by race, with some seeing middle class as worst off (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Stephen Henderson: State must radically raise school standards (Detroit Free Press)
• Online educators wary of U.S. rule on 'state authorization' of programs (Inside Higher Ed)
• Common state curriculum to yield more textbook choices (California Watch)
• HBCUs must embrace online education (Diverse Issues in Higher Ed)
• Tentative schedule to selecting UK’s 12th president (The Kentucky Kernel)
• Retention is the focus of spring enrollment (WKU Herald)
• Gen ed task force reevaluating curriculum (WKU Herald)
• The housing issue (Louisville Cardinal)