The other school is a dish on the roof.

Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 6: the Utah Board of Higher Education published its first official waitlist count for the state's 11 technical colleges. It lists 5,634 adults and 2,421 high school students who could not get in, about 2,244 full-time equivalents. Davis Technical College in Kaysville has the longest line. Enrollment has held near 40,914 a year for five years, so demand is outrunning the seats.

Newsweek, Oct. 5: the College Board puts a year at a private nonprofit college at $65,470 all in, and an in-state public four-year at $30,990. The Bureau of Labor Statistics still shows bachelor's holders earning a median $1,578 a week against $966 for high school graduates. But the New York Fed puts recent-graduate unemployment at about 5.6 percent this spring, with 42 percent working jobs that do not need the degree.

Community College Daily, Oct. 5: Texarkana College enrolled more than 5,100 students, beating a record set in 2009. Northwest Iowa Community College passed 2,000 for only the second time. Johnston Community College in North Carolina topped 7,000 degree-seeking students on the first day, with full-time-equivalent enrollment up 16 percent. Tennessee's 13 community colleges rose 1.9 percent overall, though four lost students.

Jobs for the Future, Sept. 30: employers will need to fill about 1.7 million skilled-trades openings a year. Nearly one in four of those workers is 55 or older. Formal pathways prepare about 55 people for every 100 needed. Of every 100 people who start an apprenticeship, 48 finish, and 29 are working in a trade within five years. Most counselors call trade school credible. Only 54 percent often recommend it.

Mobile Internet Resource Center, Oct. 6: Starlink now sells the Mini, its portable satellite dish, for $149 direct, down from $199 and its lowest outright price yet. Starlink's own email calls $249 the typical price, and Best Buy and Home Depot still charge that. No end date is listed. A Roam plan is still required, from $55 a month.

Mobile Internet Resource Center guide, rechecked Oct. 4: Roam 100GB is still $55 and 300GB is still $80, both limited to the home country. Unlimited is still $175, with 30 days abroad. Ocean Mode, the add-on past 12 nautical miles, is listed at $6 a gigabyte. The charge applies to all use until the customer turns it off.

BBC Wales, Oct. 9: Dani and Tom Wooldridge, a nurse and a builder, sold their home and businesses in May and flew one way to Indonesia with children aged 12, 7 and 4. They follow the UK curriculum from a bag of textbooks. Their daughter has an online maths tutor, a former head of maths at her old school. On Lombok the children attend a worldschooling centre. Malaysia is next, with no end date.

Business Insider, Oct. 10: Haylea and Ryan Rossi left housing behind after his military service, when his remote job as an independent insurance adjuster sent them to Colorado for six months. They bought an RV, then kept moving. Haylea homeschools their two children, 12 and 10, at the kitchen island. Ryan has a desk carved out of the couch. They travel mostly in spring and fall.

Chalkbeat, Oct. 9: Colorado approved only 14 of 54 homeschool enrichment programs this summer, after the programs cost the state nearly $100 million last year. The State Board of Education takes up permanent rules on Oct. 15. The drafts bar public money for ski lessons, private piano lessons and loaded debit cards, cap paid field trips at two a semester, and limit classes to 16 hours a week. One option lets only districts and charter schools run the programs.

Daily Gazette, Oct. 6: after the deaths of the Harmon children in Mechanicville, state Sen. Patricia Fahy, D-Albany, introduced two bills. One bars districts from approving homeschooling while a parent is under a child-abuse investigation, has a substantiated case, or has a domestic violence conviction. The other orders a district review, within 60 days, for children who missed at least 20 percent of school before leaving.

Treasury, Oct. 1: proposed rules for a scholarship tax credit that starts Jan. 1, 2027. A donor may claim up to $1,700 a year, or $3,400 on a joint return, for cash given to a scholarship group. Secretary Scott Bessent said 30 states have opted in. Treasury estimates about 96 percent of children in those states would qualify. The Associated Press reported that officials said families could spend the money on private school and homeschooling. Treasury's published fact sheet names tuition, tutoring, books, and computers, and does not say homeschool.