Kentucky News - April 18, 2011

• CPE official speaks in the Netherlands (The State Journal)
• BGTC to offer GED program (Glasgow Daily Times)
• Alabama school leaders announce multi-program campaign attacking dropout problem
• Illinois Senate OKs performance-based funding for higher education (The Southern.com)
• It's testing time again for Kentucky public school children (The Courier-Journal)
• State may study how N.H. cut dropouts (The Boston Globe)
• Teach for America bill heads to Kasich (Columbus Dispatch Politics)
• End of year-round Pell grants could lead many nontraditional students to drop out (The Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Commencement to individually recognize participants, feature Todd speech (Kentucky Kernel)
• Students from 103 counties attending WKU academy (Daily News)
• U of L, Kosair open new autism center (The Courier-Journal)
• Kentucky chooses contractor to develop new tests (The Courier-Journal)
• UK won't release names of finalists for president (The Courier-Journal)
• Editorial | For-profit colleges (The Courier-Journal)
• Fund-raising a tradition of UK business school (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Nursing degree program ends (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Students attending WKU math, science academy (Messenger-Inquirer)
• Students from 103 counties attending WKU Academy (WLKY.com)