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Sallie Mae narrows 1st-quarter loss (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 06:20 PM PDT

AP - Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student lender, narrowed its loss in the first quarter, despite government efforts to stabilize short-term debt markets that Sallie Mae says hurt its results.

Ala. college president accused of plagiarism (AP)

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 03:05 PM PDT

AP - The president of Jacksonville State University, whose use of a ghostwriter for newspaper columns caused a stir two years ago, now has been accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Alabama.

Graduation rate breakdown by city (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 09:09 PM PDT

AP - Graduation rate breakdown by city

Alaska school punishes students for taunting moose (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 07:19 PM PDT

AP - Eighth-graders at an Alaska school have been disciplined for taunting and frightening a moose so severely it suffered a fatal injury.

San Diego schools sell first U.S. tax credit debt (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 06:56 PM PDT

Reuters - California's San Diego school system on Tuesday sold the nation's first new bonds that pay investors a tax credit but no interest, one of its financial advisers said.

School district hosts credit-card abuse auction (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 06:36 PM PDT

AP - The Dallas Independent School District is conducting an online auction this month of items confiscated from employees who fraudulently used the district's credit cards.

Justices hear arguments over school strip search (AP)

Posted: 21 Apr 2009 06:14 PM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court seemed worried Tuesday about tying the hands of school officials looking for drugs and weapons on campus as they wrestled with the appropriateness of a strip-search of a 13-year-old girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen.