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• Obama administration mobilizes to save faltering spending bill
• '1 in 5': how a study of 2 colleges became the most cited campus sexual assault statistic
• Light the Way With College Scholarships for Jewish Students
• Oregon, needing funds for education, offers to sell forest

Obama administration mobilizes to save faltering spending bill Posted: 11 Dec 2014 04:12 PM PST By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration made a last-ditch attempt on Thursday to drum up Democratic support to salvage a faltering $1.1 trillion spending bill, just hours ahead of a midnight U.S. government shutdown deadline. Administration officials from President Barack Obama down to staff at the Department of Education were phoning Democrats in the House of Representatives to ask them to set aside objections to a financial provision and pass the measure to fund most of the government through September. ...

'1 in 5': how a study of 2 colleges became the most cited campus sexual assault statistic Posted: 11 Dec 2014 11:00 AM PST When people talk about sexual assault on college campuses, there's one statistic that comes up again and again: one woman in five is sexually assaulted between the beginning of freshman year and graduation. It comes from a survey conducted at just two universities, and the researcher who led it says it was never intended to be generalized to the national level. This hints at a disturbing truth on the issue of sexual assault: we don't really know how common it is on college campuses.

Light the Way With College Scholarships for Jewish Students Posted: 11 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST For generations of American Jewish families, getting a college education has been a major priority. In fact, the Pew Research Center found that 58 percent of U.S. Jews identify as college graduates, compared with just 29 percent of total American adults.

Oregon, needing funds for education, offers to sell forest Posted: 10 Dec 2014 06:03 PM PST By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Want to buy a forest? Oregon is preparing to sell off 92,000 acres (37,200 hectares) of coastal woodlands, in a move to distance itself from environmentally questionable timber sales that have long provided revenue to the state's public schools. Officials expect a sale price between $300 million and $700 million – a big range that reflects uncertainty about the extent of logging restrictions in the Elliott State Forest, an Oregon Department of State Lands spokeswoman said on Wednesday. ...

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