November 4, 2005

Group Picked to Run Scholars Program

By STEPHEN BURD

A national program that the Bush administration has been promoting to prepare high-school students for college is under new leadership.

The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, based in Denver, has been chosen by the U.S. Education Department to run the State Scholars program.

Last month the Center for State Scholars, the Texas organization that had managed the program, shut down after it came under fire from the Education Department's inspector general for

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