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• Sallie Mae posts 1st-qtr profit, increases lending (AP)
• NM boy fractures skull in fight on school bus (AP)
• NJ voters reject 59 percent of school budgets (AP)
• Nothing found after threat closes Colorado school (AP)
• New Jersey voters approve only 41 percent of school budgets (Reuters)
• U-Md. officials probe missing video in beating (AP)

Sallie Mae posts 1st-qtr profit, increases lending (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 05:47 PM PDT AP - Sallie Mae, the nation's largest student lender, on Wednesday posted a profit for the first quarter, reversing a year-ago loss, as bad loans eased and it lent to more students.

NM boy fractures skull in fight on school bus (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 02:36 PM PDT AP - A 7-year-old boy underwent surgery for a skull fracture after an apparent fight with another child on a school bus in the southern New Mexico city of Las Cruces, a school official and an attorney for the child's family said Wednesday.

NJ voters reject 59 percent of school budgets (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 01:39 PM PDT AP - The state pastime in New Jersey may be complaining about the state's highest-in-the-nation property taxes, but it's rare for voters to stand up against them.

Nothing found after threat closes Colorado school (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 10:30 AM PDT AP - Officials say they found nothing suspicious at a Colorado high school after classes were canceled because administrators found an online threat.

New Jersey voters approve only 41 percent of school budgets (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 10:23 AM PDT Reuters - New Jersey voters approved only 41 percent of 537 proposed school budgets, the first time since 1976 that a majority of school budgets were rejected, the School Boards Association said on Wednesday.

U-Md. officials probe missing video in beating (AP) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 07:43 AM PDT AP - University of Maryland officials are asking for an investigation of why surveillance video footage went missing and wasn't turned over to lawyers for a student who was beaten by Prince George's County Police.

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