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• Teen accused of 1 death and hitting LA school bus (AP)
• School Diversity: The Problems with Economic Integration (Time.com)
• Gay rights backers demand school official's ouster (AP)
• New federal regulations target for-profit colleges (AP)
• Federal Grants, Tax Breaks Help Reduce Tuition Pain (U.S. News & World Report)
• College tuition costs climbing again this fall (AP)
• Ed Dept moves to pre-empt for-profits who "game" system (Reuters)
• 'Shove it' Dem's gov candidacy faltering in RI (AP)
• McCance up for Re-Election Nov. 2 (The Advocate)

Teen accused of 1 death and hitting LA school bus (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:50 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors want a 17-year-old boy tried as an adult on charges that he killed a 70-year-old man during a drunken drive in Los Angeles and then smashed into a school bus, injuring 19 people.

School Diversity: The Problems with Economic Integration (Time.com) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 04:30 PM PDT Time.com - Education reform: despite its allure, the economic integration of schools is not a panacea

Gay rights backers demand school official's ouster (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - More than two dozen protesters rallied outside of a high school Thursday to call for the resignation of a school board member who posted on Facebook that he thinks gay youths should kill themselves.

New federal regulations target for-profit colleges (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 09:07 AM PDT AP - The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday will release finalized regulations targeting for-profit colleges that give the government a stronger hand overseeing the fast-growing sector — including new rules reining in how recruiters are paid and a controversial attempt to define credit hours.

Federal Grants, Tax Breaks Help Reduce Tuition Pain (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 06:51 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Recent--and possibly temporary--improvements to federal financial aid and tax benefits have cut the tuition price most full-time students are actually paying for college this year to levels lower than they've been over most of the last decade, the College Board reported today.

College tuition costs climbing again this fall (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 05:38 AM PDT AP - College tuition costs shot up again this fall, and students and their families are leaning more on the federal government to make higher education more affordable in tough economic times, according to two reports issued Thursday.

Ed Dept moves to pre-empt for-profits who "game" system (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 09:36 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Education Department's final rules to rein in for-profit schools, which are accused of failing to educate students while leaving them heavily in debt, would bar incentives to admissions recruiters and limit the creation of new programs.

'Shove it' Dem's gov candidacy faltering in RI (AP) Posted: 28 Oct 2010 12:59 PM PDT AP - Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio's candidacy appears to be on the rocks, days after he said President Barack Obama could "shove it" for not endorsing him.

McCance up for Re-Election Nov. 2 (The Advocate) Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:05 PM PDT The Advocate - Arkansas's education department director Tom Kimbrell is losing faith in Facebook gay-basher Clint McCance, who is running unopposed for reelection November 2nd. But Kimbrell stopped short of calling for his resignation.

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