$4.5 billion pledged to send kids to school

The goal is to get all the world's children into school by 2015

NEW YORK - A coalition of governments, charities and U.N. agencies pledged $4.5 billion on Thursday in an effort to get all the world's children in school by 2015.

A meeting — which included British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Australian Prime Minister Mark Rudd, Jordan's Queen Rania, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick and former child laborers — was meant to boost the effort to eradicate illiteracy and provide universal primary schooling by 2015.

That was the target year established by a U.N. summit in 2000, but as Brown noted, the pace at this point would not reach the goal even by the end of this century.

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Napolitano creates community college council

By East Valley Tribune
East Valley Tribune
updated 3:17 a.m. MT, Mon., Sept. 22, 2008

Mesa, Arizona - Gov. Janet Napolitano has created an Arizona Community College Council that leaders say will allow districts to coordinate more effectively and help achieve the governor's goal of doubling bachelor's degrees awarded by 2020.

"It will be a great thing for the state of Arizona that community colleges have a singular voice," said Fred Boice, president of the Arizona Board of Regents. "They can provide Arizona with a larger and better-trained work force."

However, Boice said the council has a difficult job because of the disparity between the sizes and locations of the state's community colleges.

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Senior citizens pursuing education from home

NEW YORK - Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature.

But Leeds will never step foot on a campus or in a classroom. The 79-year-old widow has multiple sclerosis, uses a wheelchair and is confined to her Manhattan apartment.

Leeds is one of about 500 people enrolled for the fall semester in a telephone-based educational program for homebound seniors called DOROT University Without Walls, believed to be the largest program of its kind in the country.

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Perdue, Mccrory Face Off On Public Education

CARY, N.C. -- North Carolina governor hopefuls Beverly Perdue and Pat McCrory cemented their differences on public education at a debate in Wake County.

Perdue, the Democratic lieutenant governor, came out quickly in the hour-long televised forum. She said McCrory's policies supporting vouchers and opposing free community college tuition are dangerous for working class families.

McCrory, Charlotte's Republican mayor, said Perdue is misstating his views on vouchers and that taxpayers would foot the bill for the college tuition.


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Firms agree to curb student-loan marketing

N.Y. state probe into deceptive practices leads to new code of conduct

NEW YORK - Eight student loan companies agreed to adopt a code of conduct that bans deceptive marketing practices — such as offering prizes to students who sign up for loans — following an investigation by the state of New York, the state attorney general said Tuesday.

Seven direct-to-student lenders agreed to pay a combined $1.4 million to settle the probe, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said. These companies employed bait-and-switch tactics, pushed higher-interest private loans and marketed products so they appeared to be federal loans, he said.

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