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• Bill would spend more to make college affordable (AP)
• University committee votes for worker furloughs (AP)
• Lawmaker Proposing End to Student-Loan Subsidies, Backing Obama (Bloomberg)
• Lawmaker to back Obama student loan shake-up (Reuters)
• Achievement gap still splits white, black students (AP)

Bill would spend more to make college affordable (AP) Posted: 15 Jul 2009 05:18 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's plan to dramatically increase college student aid took its first step Wednesday on what could be a rocky path through Congress.

University committee votes for worker furloughs (AP) Posted: 15 Jul 2009 04:55 PM PDT AP - A key committee of the University of California on Wednesday approved a budget plan that would force most of the system's 180,000 employees to take unpaid leave and pay cuts to offset a steep drop in state funding.

Lawmaker Proposing End to Student-Loan Subsidies, Backing Obama (Bloomberg) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 09:01 PM PDT Bloomberg - July 15 (Bloomberg) -- House Education Committee Chairman George Miller will introduce legislation today that would end federal subsidies for student-loan providers, backing President Barack Obama’s plan.

Lawmaker to back Obama student loan shake-up (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 08:48 PM PDT Reuters - The head of a key U.S. congressional panel will introduce legislation on Wednesday calling for ending a college student loan program that for years helped lenders such as Sallie Mae thrive.

Achievement gap still splits white, black students (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2009 07:40 PM PDT AP - Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education Department report released Tuesday.

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