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• Loan changes to help students, community colleges (AP)
• Philly charter school moonlights as a nightclub (AP)
• Bullying raises questions about schools' vigilance (AP)
• Obama signs law finalizing health care, loan redo (AP)
• Sallie Mae CEO's compensation put at $5.4 million (AP)
• Obama to sign new student aid initiative (Reuters)
• Jill Biden to convene education summit (AP)
• Obama signs health care reconciliation bill (AP)
• Race to the Top winners: How did Delaware and Tennessee succeed? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Loan changes to help students, community colleges (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 05:16 PM PDT AP - Bigger grants for college students who need them. Relaxed payment terms for students with loans. More money for community colleges and historically black institutions.

Philly charter school moonlights as a nightclub (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:55 PM PDT AP - Who knew a school cafeteria could be so much fun?

Bullying raises questions about schools' vigilance (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:55 PM PDT AP - A gay teenager in New York wins $50,000 from a school district that failed to stop taunts about his sexual orientation. The Justice Department investigates complaints that administrators ignored racial bullying in a Philadelphia school.

Obama signs law finalizing health care, loan redo (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PDT AP - Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.

Sallie Mae CEO's compensation put at $5.4 million (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:06 PM PDT AP - The CEO of student loan provider Sallie Mae received compensation valued at nearly $5.4 million last year, a 35 percent cut from 2008, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing Tuesday.

Obama to sign new student aid initiative (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:29 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Tuesday will sign into law an overhaul of the college student loan program which cuts commercial banks out of the student loan business, drying up a multibillion dollar profit stream.

Jill Biden to convene education summit (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:01 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is asking the vice president's wife to convene a White House summit on community colleges.

Obama signs health care reconciliation bill (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:00 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is signing a bill Tuesday that finalizes his big health care overhaul and revamps the U.S. student loan system.

Race to the Top winners: How did Delaware and Tennessee succeed? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 29 Mar 2010 03:48 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The Department of Education decided to limit the number of Race to the Top winners to just two states in the first round of the competition, awarding the proposals from Delaware and Tennessee.

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