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Missouri board halts search for commissioner of higher education (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Facing the prospect of being merged out of existence, Missouri's Department of Higher Education has halted its search for a new commissioner. The move came Thursday night during an emergency meeting, by conference call, of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education.

Obama's education chief pops in at Denver school (Denver Post)
The federal government is pushing turnaround strategies for the country's lowest-performing schools, so it was fitting that U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Friday visited a school that has seen an amazing shift.

Quinn and Brady take shots over education at union meeting (Chicago Tribune)
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican rival Bill Brady participated in a heated debate today over education and how to fund it.   Both men appeared before the annual meeting of the Illinois Education Association, where Quinn was cheered for his proposal to raise the income tax to prevent major education cuts and Brady, a state senator from Bloomington, was booed for his support of an employee ...

Final Glance: Education companies (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top education companies were mixed at the close of trading: Apollo Group fell $.26 or .4 percent, to $64.37. Career Education fell $.80 or 2.5 percent, to $31.66. DeVry rose $.02 or percent, to $67.28. Strayer Education fell $1.32 or .5 percent, to $242.30.

Economy Puts Squeeze On Education Promises (NPR)
In more flush economic times, voters in many states approved education mandates for things like smaller class sizes. But now that states are being forced to slash education budgets, those mandates are coming back to haunt them.

Education leader: Empower teachers, engage parents (Reno Gazette-Journal)
Parent engagement and customizing learning to meet specific needs are key elements required to foster true education reform, a high-ranking member of the National Education Association said in Reno on Friday.

N.C. Schools Official Lauds Education Proposal (NPR)
The Obama administration announced a plan earlier this week to overhaul the No Child Left Behind education policy. Peter Gorman, the superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Schools in North Carolina, says he's happy the president is rewriting the rules.

Does Obama's Education Plan Make the Grade? (Time Magazine)
The President's plan for education reform is a good start. Here's how to make it even better

State higher education board suspends search for leader (The Springfield News-Leader)
Jefferson City -- The Missouri Coordinating Board of Higher Education has suspended its search for a new commissioner until more is known about the agency's future.