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• West Bank settlement college deemed a university
• Correction: Tuition Aid-Immigration story
• Fact finder recommends raise for Chicago teachers
• Are For-Profit Colleges a Rip-off?

West Bank settlement college deemed a university Posted: 17 Jul 2012 01:31 PM PDT A settler body voted Tuesday to grant university status to Israel's only West Bank settlement college, overruling objections by Israel's Council on Higher Education and potentially stirring a new round of international condemnation against Israeli policies in the West Bank.

Correction: Tuition Aid-Immigration story Posted: 17 Jul 2012 09:08 AM PDT In a story July 13 about a New Jersey proposal to offer college tuition aid to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, The Associated Press reported erroneously the town where New Jersey Assemblywoman Marlene Caride resides. She lives in Ridgefield, not West New York.

Fact finder recommends raise for Chicago teachers Posted: 17 Jul 2012 07:55 AM PDT An independent fact finder has recommended that Chicago teachers receive a 14.85 percent raise to "compensate teachers for working a longer school day and year," a union official union said Monday.

Are For-Profit Colleges a Rip-off? Posted: 17 Jul 2012 07:21 AM PDT A federal judge recently overturned federal regulations that would have denied federally backed loans to students attending colleges that graduated students with substantial debt and no job. The regulations, declared by the Department of Education, were intended to lower costs and increase educational value for students. But more than that, they raise an important question: Are for-profit colleges a bad deal?

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