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College Student Tries to Sell Vote on E-Bay - Saturday, July 05, 2008
Minnesota prosecutors charged a nineteen-year-old college student with a felony for bribery and solicitation, all because of an e-bay posting. A journalism student at the University...
Congress passes bill to protect student loans - Sunday, September 21, 2008
Although it won’t affect UF students, some college students in Florida who worry about securing federal student loans may be able to rest easy for at least another year.
A bill that...
Private student lenders - Monday, December 08, 2008
When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that he wanted to extend $60 billion of the $700 billion rescue package to non-bank credit card and auto loan firms, we called it "an...
Schumer wants student loan market to be protected - Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Sen. Charles Schumer says particular attention needs to be paid during the current financial upheaval to make sure the student loan market is protected from the credit crunch.
The New...
MSU students to pay more during summer - Saturday, October 25, 2008
Michigan State University students will see slight bumps in their summer tuition to help make up for less-than-expected funding from Lansing this year.
The 1.2% increase will mean a...
Washington Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Students - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
SEATTLE — Washington state law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students.
That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which...
High costs Colleges should explained - Sunday, June 08, 2008
In just 30 years, we have seen a 577 percent increase in tuition and fees at colleges and universities across the nation -- a rate that has grown much higher than the rate of inflation....
9 out of 10 students pass high school exit exam - Wednesday, September 02, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - State education officials say just over 90 percent of California's Class of 2009 passed the exit high school exam by the end of their senior year.
Data released Wednesday...
Black students in South performing better on tests - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
ATLANTA - A new government study shows black students in many Southern states are improving test scores in math and reading, but not enough to narrow an achievement gap with their white...
Budget cuts would hurt instruction at Kansas universities, officials say - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Cutting budgets at Kansas’ six universities by as much as 7 percent by 2010 would mean losing jobs, classes, services and programs at some of the schools, officials said Tuesday.
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