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• Arne Duncan: Will the Secretary of Education Stay or Go If Obama Is Reelected?
• News Summary: Europe's young pursue dreams abroad
• Most Calif. for-profit colleges lose state grants
• Judge takes Nev. tax initiative under advisement
• Sudan activists say 12 protesters killed by regime

Arne Duncan: Will the Secretary of Education Stay or Go If Obama Is Reelected? Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:14 AM PDT Education secretaries are seldom household names.

News Summary: Europe's young pursue dreams abroad Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:39 AM PDT LOOKING ELSEWHERE: Spain's austerity measures and downward economic spiral are driving bright students and young people to seek to emigrate to Britain, France, the Netherlands or Germany to get advanced degrees and work. Spain's unemployment rate for people under 25 is 53 percent.

Most Calif. for-profit colleges lose state grants Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:54 AM PDT California's move to tighten eligibility requirements for its Cal Grant program will eliminate or reduce awards to 14,500 students, most of them enrolled in for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix, the California Student Aid Commission announced Tuesday.

Judge takes Nev. tax initiative under advisement Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:02 AM PDT Attorneys for a business coalition argued Tuesday that a Nevada initiative seeking to impose a margins tax on businesses to fund education is misleading because it does not ensure more money for public schools, while backers countered the wording meets legal standards and should be allowed to proceed.

Sudan activists say 12 protesters killed by regime Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:33 AM PDT Sudanese activists say regime forces have killed 12 people in the country's battle-scarred Darfur region, most of them high school students.

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