Education

Arizona district cuts school week to save cash

2009-02-24T11:34:00.000-08:00

Officials hope to save $500,000 a year by cutting week to four days

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - One school district decided to shrink the school week from five days to four in an effort to save cash because of the deepening recession and falling enrollment.

The Bisbee Unified School District board voted Thursday to close schools every Friday for the next two school years. District Superintendent Gail Covington had recommended the shortened school week as a way to save $500,000 each year in the small southeastern Arizona town.

School days would be lengthened by an hour to make up the lost instructional time.

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Geronimo's kin sue Skull and Bones

2009-02-19T15:53:00.000-08:00

Relatives of legendary Apache want secret Yale group to turn over remains

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since.

The federal lawsuit filed in Washington on Tuesday — the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death — also names the university and the federal government.

Geronimo's great-grandson Harlyn Geronimo said his family believes Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to keep in its New Haven clubhouse, a crypt. The alleged graverobbing is a longstanding legend that gained some validity in recent years with the discovery of a letter from a club member that described the theft.

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More students heading to two-year colleges

2009-02-10T12:43:00.001-08:00

The recession is forcing families to choose a cheaper alternative

CONCORD, N.H. - College freshman Elizabeth Hebert's choice of a four-year school suddenly got too expensive. George Haseltine already has a business degree, but he concluded after several layoffs that he needed more training to get work.

So, in the middle of this school year, both landed at New Hampshire Technical Institute, which like other community colleges across the country has suddenly grown a lot more crowded.

The two-year schools are reporting unprecedented enrollment increases this semester, driven by students from traditional colleges seeking more bang for their buck and by laid-off older workers

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More students heading to two-year colleges

2009-02-10T12:43:00.000-08:00

Debate rages over NYC Hebrew charter school

2009-02-04T12:52:00.000-08:00

Some ask if public institutions should celebrate one particular culture

NEW YORK - Two years after the debut of a controversial public school focusing on Arabic language and culture, a Hebrew language charter school is opening in New York City, stoking further debate about the purpose of a public school education.

Backers of the Hebrew Language Academy Charter School, slated to open this fall, say it will appeal to diverse ethnic and religious groups and not just Jews. But critics here and elsewhere around the nation question whether public schools should celebrate one particular culture.

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Finding college aid could prove tough test

2009-01-29T12:24:00.000-08:00

Recession stokes fears that loans and grants will be scarcer this year

CHICAGO - Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam.

The quest for money that begins for students and parents every January has taken on new urgency in 2009 amid fears that loans and grants will be scarcer than in the past due to the recession.

"The financing system for college is in real crisis," said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers. "Every one of the participants in the system is experiencing hardship — higher education institutions, states, aid donors and families all are cash-strapped."

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College endowments wilt with economy

2009-01-28T15:14:00.000-08:00

Market meltdown forces schools to impose sharp budget cuts

When the markets were booming, billionaire colleges like Harvard, MIT and Stanford tapped their swelling endowments and launched spending binges on faculty, buildings and scholarships.

Now, they're seeing firsthand the one downside to relying on a huge nest-egg: The market crash has them confronting the sharpest budget cuts in memory.

A new survey released Tuesday reports college endowments fell 3 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30. In a follow-up, a smaller group estimated declines averaging 23 percent in the first five months of fiscal 2009, which began in July.

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Future of abstinence-only funding is in limbo

2009-01-20T12:15:00.000-08:00

Critics want to end program they consider ineffective, sometimes harmful

NEW YORK - With the exit of the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an ineffective, sometimes harmful program.

How quickly and completely they reach their goal is uncertain, however, as conservative supporters of abstinence education lobby Congress and President-elect Barack Obama to preserve at least some of the funding, which now totals $176 million a year.

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$100 million climate, energy center at Stanford

2009-01-16T15:55:00.000-08:00

130 faculty members from 21 departments will come together

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Stanford University announced Monday it has raised $100 million to create a new research center focused on combating global warming and developing cleaner sources of energy.

The new Precourt Institute for Energy will focus on research related to improving energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, studying national energy policy and developing renewable power sources such as wind, solar and biomass.

The $100 million in new funding will bolster the $30 million the university already spends annually on energy research.

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Families await sharp increases in college tuition

2009-01-15T12:05:00.000-08:00

Students can expect to pay more amid slumping economy and state cuts

Most high school seniors and their families have not made final college plans for next fall. But they know this: It's probably going to cost more than they had planned.

Even in good economic times, states and colleges have largely failed to hold tuition increases in line with inflation. Now as the slumping economy forces states to slash spending, students can expect the sharpest increases in years.

Families are calling on colleges to absorb as much of the burden as possible instead of passing the extra costs on to students.

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On a tight budget? Try applying to Harvard

2009-01-09T08:14:00.000-08:00

‘Best Value Colleges’ report shows that top schools aren’t just for the rich

Those fancy-pants Ivy League colleges have gotten to be so expensive that only the wealthiest families can possibly afford them, especially during bleak economic times like these. Right?

Not necessarily.

A new report called “Best Value Colleges for 2009,” issued Thursday by The Princeton Review and USA TODAY, spotlights 50 public and 50 private colleges and universities that do an exceptional job of helping qualifying students to pay for their higher education.

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12 students charged in Utah State teen's death

2009-01-05T12:08:00.000-08:00

Fraternity and sorority implicated in freshman pledge's alcohol poisoning

LOGAN, Utah - A fraternity and sorority at Utah State University were charged with felony hazing after an 18-year-old freshman pledge died of alcohol poisoning.

The school's chapters of the Sigma Nu fraternity and Chi Omega sorority were each charged Friday with one count of third-degree felony hazing for their involvement with the death of Michael Starks. Prosecutors also filed misdemeanor hazing charges against 12 students, including the chapter president of Sigma Nu.

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Movie revives black college's debate team

2009-01-02T07:56:00.000-08:00

Students inspired by 'Great Debaters'; $1 million from actor also helps

MARSHALL, Texas - The movie "The Great Debaters" made millions aware of the decades-old accomplishments of the debate team at a small historically black college tucked deep in the piney woods of East Texas — and gave that history new life at the school itself.

Before work began on the film, the Wiley College team that broke racial barriers with several impressive victories in the 1930s was a faded memory. When the school received e-mails from debaters all over the country after the movie was released a year ago, there was no team for them to join.

That has changed, thanks to donations including $1 million from the movie's star and director, Denzel Washington. An 11-member team started debating this fall, and its ranks are expected to eventually grow to about 30.

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No shoes? No problem for this college interview

2009-01-02T07:51:00.000-08:00

Wake Forest uses webcams for 'face-to-face' with prospective students

RALEIGH, N.C. - For her college interview, Avery Cullinan put on her best outfit but didn't bother with shoes. She sat in her living room, smiled into her computer's webcam and told an admissions officer more than 800 miles away that Wake Forest University was right for her.

"It's hard to part with money for a half-hour interview," said Cullinan, who avoided a costly trip from her home in Newburyport, Mass., thanks to the pilot program at Wake Forest. She was later accepted to the Winston-Salem, N.C., school.

The online interview was part of a push that started in May at the university. Admissions director Martha Allman said she eventually wants to give each applicant — more than 9,000 of them each year — a more individualized review before inviting them to Winston-Salem as part of the school's 1,200-student freshmen class.

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Hawaii attempts random drug tests of teachers

2008-12-23T12:15:00.000-08:00

Showdown arose from six arrests; union traded pay raises for testing

HONOLULU - Hawaii public school teachers signed off on first-in-the-nation statewide random drug testing in exchange for pay raises, but now the state claims the educators are trying to take the money and run.

Since the teachers' union approved the pact nearly two years ago, they've accepted the 11 percent boost in pay while fighting the random tests as an illegal violation of their privacy rights. No teacher has been tested.

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Private Colleges Worry About a Dip in Enrollment

2008-12-22T13:17:00.000-08:00

First came the good news for St. Olaf College: early-decision applications were way up this year. Now comes the bad news: the number of regular applications is way down, about 30 percent fewer than at this time last year.

“To be quite honest, I don’t know how we’ll end up,” said Derek Gueldenzoph, dean of admissions at the college, in Northfield, Minn. “By this time last year, we had three-quarters of all our applications. The deadline’s Jan. 15. If what we’ve got now is three-quarters of what we’re going to get, we’re in big trouble. But if this turns out to be only half, we’ll be fine.”

Not all private colleges are reporting fewer applications this year. Even in the Midwest and Pennsylvania, where most colleges seem to have dwindling numbers, some are getting more applications than ever.

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Uncertainty on Obama Education Plans

2008-12-16T12:44:00.000-08:00

As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to announce his choice for education secretary, there is mystery not only about the person he will choose, but also about the approach to overhauling the nation’s schools that his selection will reflect.

Despite an 18-month campaign for president and many debates, there remains uncertainty about what Mr. Obama believes is the best way to improve education.

Will he side with those who want to abolish teacher tenure and otherwise curb the power of teachers’ unions? Or with those who want to rewrite the main federal law on elementary and secondary education, the No Child Left Behind Act, and who say the best strategy is to help teachers become more qualified?

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Teacher sorry for binding girls in slavery lesson

2008-12-10T11:56:00.000-08:00

White teacher taped hands and feet of two black girls to enliven discussion

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A white social studies teacher attempted to enliven a seventh-grade discussion of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls, prompting outrage from one girl's mother and the local chapter of the NAACP.

After the mother complained to Haverstraw Middle School, the superintendent said he was having "conversations with our staff on how to deliver effective lessons."

"If a student was upset, then it was a bad idea," said Superintendent Brian Monahan of the North Rockland School District in New York City's northern suburbs.

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Study: 49 states flunk college affordability

2008-12-04T07:39:00.000-08:00

Only California, with lower-cost community colleges, made the grade

An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability — an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts.

The biennial study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, which evaluates how well higher education is serving the public, handed out "F"s for affordability to 49 states, up from 43 two years ago. Only California received a passing grade in the category, a "C," thanks to its relatively inexpensive community colleges.

The report card uses a range of measurements to give states grades, from "A" to "F," on the performance of their public and private colleges. The affordability grade is based on how much of the average family's income it costs to go to college.

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Football star among 2009 Rhodes winners

2008-11-25T07:45:00.000-08:00

Scholarship trust selects 32 men and women from the U.S.

WASHINGTON - A University of Pennsylvania student who organized an exhibit about Lenape Indians living quietly in the state is among this year's winners of Rhodes Scholarships.

Abigail P. Seldin, of Tierra Verde, Fla., curated the exhibit "Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania," which opened at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in September.

She is one of 32 men and women from across the United States to win the prestigious scholarships for study at England's Oxford University. The winners' names were announced early Sunday.

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Community colleges suddenly in spotlight

2008-11-20T12:34:00.000-08:00

Enrollment up 8 percent but colleges struggle with low completion rates

Analysis

updated 3:50 p.m. MT, Wed., Nov. 19, 2008
Long the neglected stepchildren of American higher education, community colleges have come front-and-center in the eyes of students, policymakers and philanthropists.

For students, that's because of the economy, which is boosting interest in two-year schools as a cheaper starting point for a bachelor's degree. They're also the place for job retraining, with unemployment at a 14-year high of 6.5 percent. A community colleges group estimates enrollment is up about 8 percent this fall.

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Economy strikes America’s richest university

2008-11-11T16:15:00.000-08:00

Harvard, like other Ivy Leagues, is considering its cost-cutting options

BOSTON - You know the financial meltdown is bad when even Harvard is feeling the pinch.

Harvard — America's oldest university and the world's wealthiest — helped pioneer a model of diversified endowment investing that many colleges have copied, branching into exotic investments like timber and private equity. When most schools were sticking with stocks and bonds, Harvard was buying forests in Maine and slices of startup companies financed with venture capital.

Now, the question is whether those practices have cushioned — or worsened — the blow from the latest downturn.

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Alum gives Univ. of Chicago $300 million

2008-11-07T09:14:00.000-08:00

CHICAGO - The University of Chicago says an alumnus has given its business school a $300 million gift, a record sum that comes as many universities worry they'll see donations dry up amid the financial meltdown.

The unrestricted donation by David G. Booth, chairman and CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors, and his family is the largest individual gift ever to a U.S. business school and the largest in the University of Chicago's history, said Dean Edward Snyder.

The school will be renamed the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, said Snyder, whose announcement Thursday was met by a standing ovation and cheers from students and faculty assembled at a news conference.

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College tuition up 6.4 percent on average

2008-10-29T09:31:00.000-07:00

Increase tops 5.6 percent inflation; report also cites drop in private loans

Amid the economic turmoil, students and their families are getting little relief from rising college costs, which jumped 6.4 percent this fall, according to new figures out Wednesday.

And with states aggressively cutting budgets, big increases look almost certain next year, too — if not sooner. At least two states — Rhode Island and Michigan — already have taken steps toward raising prices before next fall, and a half-dozen others are reportedly considering unusual midyear increases.

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Students broadcast interest in TV, radio work

2008-10-21T08:57:00.000-07:00

The Center for Education in TV and Radio trains people for behind-the-scenes jobs.

a small classroom inside an industrial park in Torrance, veteran TV engineer Jaime Hernandez is dispensing some practical advice to his eager students.

Look at the subject. Frame the shot. Check the focus. Above all, be consistent.

"I had a student who was always going after the spectacular shot," Hernandez said. "I told him, 'Just give me something I can use. Just give me a base hit, not a home run every time.' "

With that in mind, a dozen students fanned out to film segments on topics such as high gas prices and fishing at the Redondo Beach Pier before returning to the classroom two hours later, when their work would be dissected.

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The youth vote is in, and it says Obama will win

2008-10-20T13:38:00.000-07:00

Since 1940, student voters have accurately picked all but two presidents

Move over, pundits. Kids across America have got the 2008 presidential election all figured out.

In a poll of a quarter of a million students who are too young to vote, Democratic nominee Barack Obama sailed to victory with 57 percent of the vote while Republican nominee John McCain received 39 percent.

It may be easy to dismiss the poll — orchestrated every four years by Scholastic, a children’s publishing and media company — as mere child’s play. But here’s the uncanny thing about this educational exercise: Since 1940, student voters have accurately chosen all but two presidents.

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Preschoolers’ parents protest required flu shots

2008-10-17T09:54:00.000-07:00

N.J. policy is first in the nation to require the vaccine for small children

As flu season approaches, many New Jersey parents are furious over a first-in-the-nation requirement that children get a flu shot in order to attend preschools and day-care centers. The decision should be the parents’, not the state’s, they contend.

Hundreds of parents and other activists rallied outside the New Jersey Statehouse on Thursday, decrying the policy and voicing support for a bill that would allow parents to opt out of mandatory vaccinations for their children.

“This is not an anti-vaccine rally — it’s a freedom of choice rally,” said one of the organizers, Louise Habakus. “This one-size-fits-all approach is really very anti-American.”

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Safer seat belts required on small school buses

2008-10-15T12:45:00.000-07:00

Federal rule follows tragic deaths, but move also raises concerns

DEATSVILLE, Ala. - Smaller school buses will have to be equipped with lap-and-shoulder seat belts for the first time under a government rule drafted after the deaths of four Alabama students on a school bus that nose-dived off an overpass.

Larger buses also will have higher seat backs under the new policy, which was announced Wednesday. The design change is supposed to keep older, heavier students from being thrown over the seats in a collision.

The seat belts will only have to be installed in new buses weighing 5 tons or less, and the requirement will not take effect until 2011. These smaller school buses are already required to have lap belts, but not the safer, harness-style belts. There is no seat belt requirement for larger buses.

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Study: Peers, not profs, influence student views

2008-10-14T13:12:00.000-07:00

The trend is leftward on issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion

On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows.

The reason, according to UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute, isn't indoctrination by left-leaning faculty but rather the more powerful influence of fellow students. And at most colleges, left-leaning peer groups are more common than conservative ones.

After college, students — particularly women — move somewhat back to the right politically.

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Report: Making math uncool hurts U.S.

2008-10-13T09:24:00.000-07:00

Girls are often good at math, but driven away by taunts and teases

Americans may like to make fun of girls who are good at math, but this attitude is robbing the country of some of its best talent, researchers reported on Friday.

They found that while girls can be just as talented as boys at mathematics, some are driven from the field because they are teased, ostracized or simply neglected.

"The U.S. culture that is discouraging girls is also discouraging boys," Janet Mertz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor who led the study said in a statement.

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Univ. of Texas ends fight over Obama signs

2008-10-10T11:13:00.000-07:00

UT says it will allow the dorm-sign windows as it studies its policy

AUSTIN, Texas - Facing a free-speech uproar, the University of Texas backed down Thursday from punishing two students who refused to remove political signs from their dormitory window.

Connor Kincaid and his cousin and roommate, Blake Kincaid, said they were barred from registering for spring classes after refusing Wednesday to take down their signs supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

"Effective immediately, I am suspending the prohibition on signs in individual students' residence hall room windows and any sanctions related to its enforcement," UT President Bill Powers said in a written statement.

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20 failing Ariz. schools face state action

2008-10-08T09:08:00.000-07:00

Twenty Arizona schools that mainly serve low-income children face possible state takeover because they failed to meet state standards for improvement for at least three years running.

The Arizona Learns report, released today by the state Education Department, shows slightly more schools facing state action than last year, when 17 schools fell into the category.

The low ranking triggers a series of state interventions designed to improve the schools' academic performance.

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Superintendent shuffle costing students?

2008-10-01T15:11:00.000-07:00

Turnover is high for job that has to deal with parents, teachers, boards

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis is looking for its eighth school superintendent since 2003. Kansas City is on its 25th superintendent in 39 years.

Despite good salaries and plenty of perks, a recent study found that the average urban superintendent nationwide stays on the job only about three years — which educators say isn't enough time to enact meaningful, long-lasting reform.

"Would you buy Coca-Cola if they changed CEOs every year?" asked Diana Bourisaw, who left as St. Louis superintendent in July after two years in the top job. "The answer is no. I wouldn't."

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High school ROTC OK? San Franciscans to vote

2008-10-01T15:08:00.000-07:00

School board wants it gone, but some students campaign to save program

SAN FRANCISCO - In this city long associated with the peace movement, some teens are taking an unlikely stance — campaigning to keep the armed forces' Junior ROTC program in public schools.

If a school board decision stands, San Francisco would become the first city to remove a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. But supporters, including many college-bound Asian-American students who make up the majority of cadets here, initiated an advisory measure on the November ballot. They hope it will persuade a new school board to save JROTC.

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$4.5 billion pledged to send kids to school

2008-09-26T08:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-23T09:38:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-22T10:10:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-19T09:54:00.000-07:00

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

2008-09-16T08:59:00.000-07:00

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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