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Every day I’m sharing the most interesting things I’ve read in the day’s education news. Today let’s discuss: Faculty unions are gaining a presence in for-profit schools and colleges, Virginia is making plans to keep tabs on its high school graduates well into college and careers and Maui Waena Intermediate School’s new partnership with a private firm seems to be improving student achievement by leaps and bounds.

• A blogger at Inside Higher Ed faculty unions’ into for-profit schools and colleges.

• Virginia plans to use grant money to of high school graduates entering college and the workforce. The data will help answer questions about which high school programs work and which don’t, Education Week reported.

• Test scores improve dramatically for students Maui Waena thanks to a relatively recent partnership with , reported .

• The Birmingham News reports on how shrinking budgets are affecting libraries nationwide and .

• Kamehameha Schools broke ground on a $118 million construction project, ; Hawaii News Now’s Howard Dicus discusses the of the project.

• Cash-strapped school districts are , the Associated Press reported this week.

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