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State Update. State Update highlights the activities of members and otherorganizations at the state and regional level. Readers are encouraged tosend submissions to: Techniques, 1410 King St., Alexandria, VA 22314,fax (703) 583-7424, or e-mail jcahill@acteonline.org. MARYLAND--The Maryland Higher Education Commission has finedComputer Learning Centers Inc. $80,000 for violating state trade schoollaws at its Laurel campus, according to The Washington Post. Thecommission also warned CLC (The Computer Language Company Inc.) The publisher of this Encyclopedia. See About this product. , which is based in Fairfax, Va., that itcould lose its license to operate in Maryland. The commission says the school recruited unqualified students whohad little hope of passing its computer courses, which can cost as muchas $17,000. When the students dropped out, they owed the schoolthousands of dollars, much of which they'd borrowed from federalstudent loan programs. This is the third time in recent months that CLC has faced legaltrouble. The state of Illinois sued the company for consumer fraud andthe U.S. Department of Education has brought charges of violatingfederal student loan programs. MICHIGAN--The Macomb County K-12 school districts and MacombCommunity College Macomb Community College is a community college with several locations in Michigan. HistoryThe Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the establishment of South Macomb Community College as an extension of the traditional K-12 system in the Van Dyke in Warren recently reached an agreement forarticulating the K-12 hospitality and food service programs withMCC's culinary arts program. The agreement marks the first time that high school students willearn college credit in Macomb's nationally recognized culinary artsprogram. Under the new plan, qualified high school graduates who arerecommended by their instructors can enter Macomb's program at theintermediate level and enroll in "Culinary Techniques" and"Production Baking." If students complete these classes, theyreceive community college credit for both the introductory andintermediate classes. For more information about this new articulation agreement, contactEd Stanton at Macomb Community College, (810) 286-2011. NORTH CAROLINA--There's a small civil war in Archdale, N.C.,over the content of a confederate history course and its subsequentcancellation. Randolph Community College's continuing education continuing education:see adult education. continuing educationor adult educationAny form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). class,"North Carolina North Carolina,state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N).Facts and FiguresArea, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. History: Our Part in the War for SouthernIndependence," was taught by local members of the nationalnonprofit organization Nonprofit OrganizationAn association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well.Notes:Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. Sons of Confederate Veterans Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an organization of male descendants of soldiers who served the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. SCV membership is open to all [1] (SCV SCV Santa Clarita Valley (California)SCV Sons of Confederate VeteransSCV Santa Clara VanguardSCV Singapore Cable VisionSCV Special Category Visa (Australia)SCV StarHub Cable Vision ), whose membersare male descendants of Civil War confederate soldiers. The college received widespread criticism from the community afterthe Greenboro News and Record newspaper ran a story about how the courseportrayed most blacks during the Civil War as content with their slavestatus. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. (NAACP NAACPin full National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleOldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. ) responded with a lawsuit threat. On the last night of the class,the college cancelled it indefinitely. The SCV countered with a half-page ad in the News and Recordaccusing the reporter of fabricating racist comments and attributingthem to the instructors, and arguing that the course begins with a unitcondemning slavery. WEST VIRGINIA--Hundred High School, a small rural high school inthe town of Hundred, has become the first school in the state and amongthe first in the nation to issue laptops to all its students and use astate-of-the-art infrared computer network. The NETschools Project letsteachers assign homework, communicate with parents via e-mail andcollect assignments from each laptop automatically at the beginning ofGov. Cecil H. each school day. Gov. Cecil H. Underwood Cecil Harland Underwood (born November 5, 1922) is an American Republican Party politician from West Virginia, known for the length of his career. He was governor of West Virginia from 1957 until 1961 and from 1997 until 2001. (R) attended a ceremony to dedicate the newcomputer system last December. "Few people would expect that asmall school in a rural community could become a national leader in theuse of education technology," he said. "Successes in educationoften come where we least expect them, and progress is not limited bythe expectations of stereotype." Funding for the program comes from the governor'smultimillion-dollar SUCCESS program (Student Utilization of Computers inCurriculum for Enhancement of Scholastic Skills), which aims tointegrate computers into the curriculum of all secondary schools in thestate. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS--Gerald N. Trizzoli is the new executivedirector of the National Association of Secondary School Principals The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) is a United States educational advocacy organization consisting of secondary school principals. To promote excellence among middle school and high school students, NASSP founded and still sponsors the National Honor (NASSP NASSP National Association of Secondary School PrincipalsNASSP North American Society of Social Philosophy ). In his 40-year career in education, Trizzoli has been a collegepresident, professor, state commissioner of education, superintendentand school principal. In 1996 President Clinton appointed him assistantsecretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Departmentof Education. Trizzoli succeeds Thomas Koerner, who has retired. Koerner wasNASSP's executive director for one year.