After nearly eight months of waiting, almost 20,000 pages of legal briefs, and millions of dollars in election costs,
In weeks past, some Republican leaders had urged Mr. Coleman to press on to the federal courts if need be, but those calls faded Tuesday.
“The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken, and I respect its decision and will abide by the result. It’s time for Minnesota to come together under the leaders it has chosen and move forward. I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United States senator — Al Franken.”
“When you win an election this close, you know that not one bit of effort went to waste,” said Mr. Franken
With 60 votes (including those of two independents) now most likely aligned with the Democrats, the party could avoid filibusters.
Mr. Coleman, who some in Minnesota were already speculating might run for governor in 2010
After so much turmoil, the phone call was warm and gracious, Mr. Franken said, adding later that he had recalled thinking in the midst of it: “This is nice. This is a nice way to end it.”

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Community colleges and high schools would receive federal funds to create free, online courses in a program that is in the final stages of being drafted by the Obama administration.
reach more students and to link basic skills education to job training.
John White, press secretary for the Education Department
the federal government pay for (and own) courses that would be free for all, as well as setting up a system to assess learning in those courses, and creating a "National Skills College" to coordinate these efforts, the plan could be significant far beyond its dollars.
and offer them free -- and is also pushing that movement in the direction of community colleges.
"This is so spot on in terms of what's needed," said Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University at Bloomington and author of The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education (forthcoming from Jossey-Bass).
the impact of bringing free online courses to those who may need basic skills and job training could have much more of an impact than the free courses from elite universities.
the impact on the individuals and the economy could be huge.
According to the draft materials from the administration, the program would support the development of 20-25 "high quality" courses a year, with a mix of high school and community college courses. Initial preference would go to "career oriented" courses. The courses would be owned by the government and would be free for anyone to take. Courses would be selected competitively, through peer review, for support. And the courses would be "modular" or "object based" such that they would be "interoperable" and could be offered with a variety of technology platforms.
work to develop examinations that could be given at the end of the courses so that colleges, employers and students could judge how much learning had taken place.
And the National Skills College would work to promote programs that might mix the free courses with tuition courses so students could earn degrees at lower cost.
t would be open to public agencies and to private for-profit or nonprofit groups.
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the Community College Consortium for Open Education Resources, which has pioneered the idea of making textbooks and other course materials for community college students available free and online.
"It's time for this," he said.
'Hey there are these courses now available for free' is going to create incentives for lots of laptop programs to appear," he said.
The discussion draft for the job training program calls for spending $500 million a year in the first five years of the program, during which grants would be awarded competitively to community colleges, and $1.3 billion after that, at which point 50 percent of funds would be awarded by formula to states, 25 percent awarded to those states showing high performance programs, and 25 percent to community colleges, awarded competitively.
To be eligible, community colleges would need to agree to track and report on student outcomes, and to set targets for graduation rates and "employment-related outcomes," while also serving "high need populations." Funds could then be used to create programs that "blend basic skills and occupational training," to provide "comprehensive, personalized services to help students plan their coursework and careers and support services that will keep them in school," and to create programs in partnerships with employers
The loan fund for community college facilities would receive $10 billion under the plan.
States would distribute funds based on "demonstrated need," with an emphasis on expanding capacity in programs that "meet employer needs in the areas of health care, green jobs, science, engineering and technology."
but that they were generally encouraged by the ideas in play.
He said that colleges are being forced to turn students away, "which is the wrong thing to be doing in this economy," and that the funds for job training programs could help community colleges educate more people, and help them prepare for good jobs.
Boggs said that his association has estimated a $100 billion need for new community college facilities,
Boggs also noted the unusual prominence that the administration is giving to community colleges as institutions that can help deal with the country's economic mess. "I think the spotlight is really shining on community colleges right now," he said.

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