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 talks about faculty unions’ recent pushes into for-profit schools and colleges.

• Virginia plans to use grant money to expand its tracking 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 EdisonLearning, reported The Maui News.

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

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

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

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