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Is there a plan to increase the amount of money the school earns?  I have found it very hard to build up money in order to purchase the different areas of the school or upgrade them.

Hey i would like to know what you think about add fetish options like a portal (for inhuman) a zoo (for beastily) a chemie lab (for futa) and so on. There are many pics for this but i dont know how hard this woulf be too add.

I tried to reduce the rich get richer effect, but to some extend its unavoidable - good stats do have to have positive effects after all. Otherwise, they aren't good stats. 
I have already implemented a limiter system, so milder actions won't corrupt further if your school already is fairly corrupt. 
I also did my best to limit backlash effects where people get more inhibited by you being too forward. But in some cases it just seemed to be the correct response, so there is some of it.
I personally like that stealth aspect of the game: It all seems perfectly innocent, until you start breaching that innocents and corrupting people. And suddenly a lot more options become viable.

As an example of an event whose rewards I modified:
label school_grounds17:
    "As you walk out of school you see a girl just as a wind gust blows up her skirt."
    menu:
        "Look!":
            if inhibition > 80:
                "You catch a hint of her panties while the girl pushes down her skirt and screams pervert at you."
                $ reputation_o.dec(0.1)
                $ morale_o.dec(0.5)
                $ deviance_o.inc(0.2)
            elif deviance >= 20:
                "You catch a hint of her panties while the girl smiles and ask if you like what you see."
                $ inhibition_o.dec(0.3,40)
                $ deviance_o.inc(0.3,50)
            else:
                "You catch a hint of her panties as the girl unsurely pushes down her skirt again."
                $ morale_o.dec(0.2)
                $ inhibition_o.dec(0.3,60)
                $ deviance_o.inc(0.1,20)
        "Look away":
            "You quickly look away."
    return
So in no case does being too forward make the students more inhibited or less deviant. And there are limits to how uninhibited and deviant this event can make them:
inhibition can't drop below 40, deviance can't raise above 50.
(This is the event as it will be in 0.2, not in the currently published version)

If you compare my version with the original, I think you will find that I am putting way more emphasis on limiting the speed of that corruption and giving you new things to worry about (student stress being the most prominent example). Yes, new options should open up by the corruption, but it should not be all smooth sailing. I want to keep the player engaged by having new problems for him to juggle. 
Will surely get expanded as the game matures. 

Another point i noticed in late-game. At some point, roughly around the time you've unlocked everything except the "minimum inhibition 0", You're morale and behavior starts plummeting at such speeds that you cant effectively stop it.
Even after trying to lessen punishment's, giving students free reign on clothing and perma running behavior weeklies. It still keeps plummeting despite trying to change all policy's to be as mild as possible while also trying to reprimand students on... basically fucking around at that point.
Nothing seems to help and it keeps dropping every time the week changes by roughly 5%.

I also noticed, at some point you randomly lose huge chunks of behavior when the week changes. I'm talking about losing almost 25% behavior at once. Seems a bit much when it doesn't even happen when you get new students.

So maybe bump up the amount of money you get at start and look at those sudden behavior tankings.

Another point would be the slow increase of reputation. Maybe add a yearly/biyearly event that rewards reputation/money if academics/arts/athletics are high enough.

Your bug report is actually what motivated me to implement the weekly stat changes screen, which in turn turned up a very obscure bug in weekly stat effects.
I don't think that is the problem you had, but if you or anybody has weekly stat effects which seem really weird - in 0.2.0 there is now a good way to get more information about what is going on. 

In playtesting the new version, I almost maxed out all of the stats (about 15 months in game time), and everything has seemed to be pretty stable.

Ok, I'll try to explain it some, but it's complex, and I only have your description of what you are doing, so...

For rules: Go into "Unlocks", and unlock "PDAs are allowed". With good behavior, this will be cheap (down to 10 stuff support).
Now you can enable the rule "PDAs are allowed" under "Rules".
This is actually one of the most all around beneficial rules/policies you can enact. Amongst other things, it actually directly lowers stress if your students are uninhibited or deviant. :-)
As for differences between rules and policies: rules are on/off switches, while policies have different options.

Please remember that stress will temporarily go up when you change the dresscode, because the students have to get used to the new policy. This will drop back down again with time (a few weeks).
You can see this in the line "Stress change: +1 (0)" when looking at a policy option.
The +1 is the immediate stress change, while (0) is the stress change once the temporary effect is gone again.
In other words: Constantly changing the dresscode to try to lower stress is counter productive...

Stress rises with policy changes (as just described), higher academic achievements and athletics.
It goes down with higher morale and behavior, and better buildings.

So your problem is probably that your academics and athletics stats continued to rise, and you did not do enough to counteract that.
To a certain point this is self correcting: Academics and athletics go down if stress is high (though morale does too), which lowers stress.
You need good enough mitigation to be able to max out your stats and keep stress in check. 

Maybe also take a look at other policies? Dresscode is not the only one influencing morale and behavior (and thus stress) by a long shot. Things like learning materials, class size, teacher leeway.
Most things are tradeoffs, and there is no way around thinking, experimenting, and observing to figure out what works. 

One way to get more feedback is to enable the option "More Numbers" in the preferences. That will give you a new Option "Stat Changes" in the main menu. Its not that easy to interpret (which is why it is hidden), but it is pretty handy when trying to figure out which policy influences which stat.

Hope that helped a bit. Maybe others want to chime in with more concrete game play tips? 

EDIT: one last thing, stress is ok as long as you can offset the stat loss from it. In my own save game, I am at 7.1 stress, yet my stats are getting close to being maxed all around. 

Good idea.
My version actually has graduation of students once a year.
But currently it is only a number crunching thing. Eventually having an event with pictures for it would definitely be nice!   

The next update will happen once I have something worth sharing.
I can't tell you even an approximate date, sorry.
It will break save compatibility (I just reworked how stats get saved).

What would very much motivate me, if anybody wants to help, is concrete event suggestions (as in, a proposed event text, and a link to a picture  ), or modding the game in any way (and sharing the result  ).
Remember, while AAR is backwards compatible with Ashford Academy classic mods, you can do quite a bit more in AAR (the distribution contains an example mod in game/images/example).

Anyway, I am working on it (again), so an update will happen at some point. 

PS: even the suggestion of turning student graduation into an event could be achieved by a mod.
All the mod would need to do, is call "hook_yearly_planning.add()" in its main.rpy, and then define a label <modname>_yearly_planning, just like the example mod does for the day_start hook.
(And if anybody does something like this, I'll gladly adapt it into the main program, if you give me leave for it. )

So really, you can already do an awful lot within the currently released framework.