Major Test Prep Company Fraudulently Claimed Millions In Federal Tutoring Funds

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Major Test Prep Company Fraudulently Claimed Millions In Federal Tutoring Funds Federal prosecutors say The Princeton Review, a leading test-preparation company, fraudulently claimed "millions of dollars" of federal money for tutoring services it never provided to hundreds of underprivileged students in New York City. The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General and New York State announced Tuesday that a civil fraud lawsuit was filed in federal court against The Princeton Review and its former employee-director Ana Azocar. The governments seek punishments and damages under the False Claims Act. (Click through to read full complaint). Police Shoots Teen In Classroom Break-In Investigation Michigan Launches First Step In Emergency Manager Process Former, Current Chicago Mayors Clash On Longer School Day Debate Controversial Tennessee 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Gets The Axe Florida Gov. Cuts College Funding, Vetoes Unlimited Tuition Hike Bill BLOG POSTS Martin J. Blank: All Hands on Deck for Community Schools At a time when some education reformers argue that only high test scores matter, the rise of the community school movement offers a crucial counterpoint. Jayanti Tamm: Why High School Doesn't Count: Getting Smart About College As the wounds of college rejections are still raw from April's thin-or-thick envelope onslaught, all over America, the reality of plan B's are slowly starting to settle in. Matt Bieber: What Is College For? An Interview With the New Yorker's Louis Menand Louis Menand's book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University asks hard questions about whether higher education's historical goals and structures are well-suited for today's world. Bev Taylor: Ivy League Admission Isn't Random While the word "holistic" may seem far from scientific, the Ivy League admissions process is indeed a social science. And it's one that can be mastered. Jose Antonio Tijerino: Imagine That... To support my argument, I call as a witness a game-changing, iconic, innovative American scientist named Albert Einstein who said: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination is endless.

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