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• Sallie Mae posts 4Q profit, misses expectations (AP)
• Chairman: Ala. prepaid tuition bill up for vote (AP)
• Wash. House approves bonds for school upgrades (AP)
• Colorado promises to adopt merit pay for teachers (AP)
• NYC to address PCB-contaminated caulk in schools (AP)
• Ivy Leaguers’ Class for Poor Becomes ‘Platinum’ Charter Schools (Bloomberg)
• Hawaii legislators seek to lengthen school year (AP)

Sallie Mae posts 4Q profit, misses expectations (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2010 03:05 PM PST AP - The student lender best known as Sallie Mae reversed its year-ago loss and posted a fourth-quarter profit Wednesday, partly as a result of higher revenue from interest and fees.

Chairman: Ala. prepaid tuition bill up for vote (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2010 02:51 PM PST AP - The sponsor of a bill to shore up Alabama's financially troubled prepaid college tuition program is optimistic it will pass a state Senate committee next week.

Wash. House approves bonds for school upgrades (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2010 02:40 PM PST AP - Voters would decide whether to launch a statewide package of energy-efficient school makeovers under a bill approved Wednesday by the state House.

Colorado promises to adopt merit pay for teachers (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2010 07:46 AM PST AP - Colorado vowed Tuesday to expand merit pay for teachers, change how educators are evaluated, and hire more Teach for America national service recruits as it tries to win $377 million in federal funding for schools.

NYC to address PCB-contaminated caulk in schools (AP) Posted: 20 Jan 2010 05:48 AM PST AP - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and New York City announced a pilot program Tuesday to address the problem of potentially hazardous PCBs in construction materials in some city schools.

Ivy Leaguers’ Class for Poor Becomes ‘Platinum’ Charter Schools (Bloomberg) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 09:00 PM PST Bloomberg - Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- In 1993, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin were recent Ivy League graduates teaching fifth graders in Houston’s inner city. The students were as much as two academic years behind their middle-class peers.

Hawaii legislators seek to lengthen school year (AP) Posted: 19 Jan 2010 06:55 PM PST AP - Stuck with the nation's shortest school year, Hawaii lawmakers will consider proposals for longer and more school days when this year's legislative session opens Wednesday.

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