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• Kan. gov. won't propose deep cuts for fiscal 2011 (AP)
• Correction: Lincoln Educational story (AP)
• SC teen gets 10 years, says sorry for attack plot (AP)
• US agency probes possible gender bias at colleges (AP)
• Facing lower state aid, Ind. Univ. cuts spending (AP)
• Winfrey donates $1.5M to Atlanta private school (AP)

Kan. gov. won't propose deep cuts for fiscal 2011 (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 04:21 PM PST AP - Kansas' governor doesn't plan to propose deep budget cuts again to avoid a deficit and said Thursday that he opposes further reductions in education spending.

Correction: Lincoln Educational story (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:12 PM PST AP - In a Dec. 16 story about Lincoln Educational Services Corp., The Associated Press reported erroneously that the company's plans to buy back 1.25 million shares include a block of 750,000 being sold by a major shareholder. The block trade of 750,000 shares is a separate transaction and not part of the 1.25 million shares being bought back by the company.

SC teen gets 10 years, says sorry for attack plot (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 02:10 PM PST AP - A South Carolina teen has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and says he's sorry for scaring people with a plot to blow up his high school.

US agency probes possible gender bias at colleges (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 01:28 PM PST AP - A federal civil rights agency investigating possible gender discrimination in college admissions will subpoena data from more than a dozen mid-Atlantic universities, officials said Thursday.

Facing lower state aid, Ind. Univ. cuts spending (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 07:55 AM PST AP - Indiana University says it has made $177 million in cuts as it adjusts to Gov. Mitch Daniels' 6 percent reduction in state aid to higher education.

Winfrey donates $1.5M to Atlanta private school (AP) Posted: 17 Dec 2009 07:20 AM PST AP - A private middle school in inner-city Atlanta has received $1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey.

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