National News

• City schools hire teachers with stronger credentials (Education Week)

• Quest for seamless system leads governors to seek new education authority (Education Week)
  
  
• California’s regulatory meltdown (Inside Higher Ed)
  
  
• Tension noted among state education panel members (Lexington Herald-Leader)
  
  
• Cowgill closer to education position (The Courier-Journal)
  
  
• Hoping to attract more middle-income students, Amherst College replaces loans with grants (The Chronicle on Higher Education)
  
  
• Attending a black college seems to lead to higher earnings for black men, study finds (The Chronicle on Higher Education)
  
  
• Challenges for black colleges’ brightest in the lab (The New York Times)