National News

• For All-USA team, 'something magical' at community colleges (USA Today)
  
  
• Business pays added benefit: $40K for college (Cincinnati.com)
  
  
• Higher ed runs risk of losing federal cash (Denver Post.com)
  
  
• Senate unanimously approves teacher background checks (Indianapolis Star.com)
  
  
• Rise in distance enrollments (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Don’t expand ‘virtual charter school enrollment, panel says (Arkansas News)
  
  
• Community colleges anticipate boom in baby boomer students(The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• State-funded college retraining programs run out of money (Seattle Times)