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After more than a century of educating only women, Peace College will admit men as full-time students next year, officials announced Thursday.

The four-year college near downtown Raleigh also will change its name to William Peace University.

The moves culminate a tumultuous year since Debra Townsley took over as the school’s 10th president. She opened up night and online classes to men early this year, cut staff and reorganized academic programs.

Many of the moves were designed to shore up the school’s finances and make it more attractive to students, officials said.

Townsley said only 2 percent of female high school seniors consider attending women’s college, so opening Peace up to men will broaden its market.

Some single-gender classes will continue to be offered once male students arrive on campus in 2012-13, said Beth Cherry, a Peace alumna and vice chairwoman of the Board of Trustees.

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From The San Diego Union-Tribune: Research from the National University System Institute for Policy Research says that school construction in California costs 13 percent to 15 percent more when project labor agreements are used. Unions argue that the industry-backed research offers phony results that are intent on discrediting labor agreements. An analysis of the study by the San Diego County Building & Construction Trades Council and others claims that researchers downplayed data that shows no significant difference in the price of school construction when union hiring mandates are in place. The study examined 551 construction projects in 180 California districts between 1996 and 2008. Researchers found that projects operating under labor agreements cost $28.90 to $32.49 more per square foot.

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Wake schools superintendent Tony Tata said today that the system should make better use of about $33.5 million it receives from the federal government to boost achievement among low-income students and those for whom English is a second language.

Tata was addressing yesterday’s release of No Child Left Behind testing, which showed that only 13.5 percent of Wake’s 163 schools were making “adequate yearly progress,” or AYP, a measure of student achievement which periodically gets tougher.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, students are divided into subgroups. Some schools receive Title I funding based on its number of low-income students and ESL funding based on the number of students for whom English is a second language. Every subgroup must meet the standards or the entire school fails.