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• Funeral held for slain Fla. girl found in landfill (AP)
• Silver State Helicopters student debt case settled (AP)
• Ariz. official warns of 'massive' teacher layoffs (AP)
• Capella 3Q profit rises as enrollments accelerate (AP)
• Mich. board asks gov, lawmakers to reduce ed cuts (AP)

Funeral held for slain Fla. girl found in landfill (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2009 03:46 PM PDT AP - Mourners said farewell Tuesday to a 7-year-old Florida girl whose body was found in a Georgia landfill after she vanished on her way home from school, and they honored her favorite color by releasing hundreds of purple balloons into the sky.

Silver State Helicopters student debt case settled (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2009 02:26 PM PDT AP - Attorneys general say a student loan company has agreed to forgive almost $113 million in debts for students of a Nevada-based helicopter flight school that went bankrupt in 2008.

Ariz. official warns of 'massive' teacher layoffs (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2009 07:55 AM PDT AP - Arizona faces the prospect of large-scale layoffs of school teachers next year due to the state's budget problems, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne said.

Capella 3Q profit rises as enrollments accelerate (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2009 07:53 AM PDT AP - For-profit education provider Capella Education Co. said on Tuesday that accelerating enrollment in its online degree programs drove profit up more than 69 percent in the third quarter.

Mich. board asks gov, lawmakers to reduce ed cuts (AP) Posted: 27 Oct 2009 07:29 AM PDT AP - Michigan's bipartisan State Board of Education urged Gov. Jennifer Granholm and lawmakers to find money to reduce cuts in public education and buy time for a long-term funding solution.

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