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• NJ's Christie strikes tentative teachers' pension deal
• Legislature asked to boost funding for UNLV medical school
• Taylor Swift gives $50,000 in song proceeds to NYC schools
• Adopting Through Foster Care: a Less Expensive Alternative
• S.C. State struggles to stay afloat: Can historically black colleges survive?
• 10 Colleges Where Graduates Have the Least Student Loan Debt
• The Best Investment the U.S. Could Make — Affordable Higher Education

NJ's Christie strikes tentative teachers' pension deal Posted: 24 Feb 2015 03:36 PM PST By Luciana Lopez Trenton, NJ (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie struck a deal with the state's teachers on a "road map" for pension reform while warning of a dire future if other unions do not make similar commitments to cut the cost of workers' retirement benefits. The tentative agreement between Christie, a Republican weighing a bid for the White House in 2016, and the New Jersey Education Association marked a dramatic turn in a long-bitter relationship.

Legislature asked to boost funding for UNLV medical school Posted: 24 Feb 2015 02:32 PM PST Nevada higher education officials on Tuesday asked legislators for three times more money than the governor has proposed to ramp up construction of a medical school in Las Vegas. Nevada System of Higher ...

Taylor Swift gives $50,000 in song proceeds to NYC schools Posted: 24 Feb 2015 09:39 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's official booster Taylor Swift has donated $50,000 to the city's public schools.

Adopting Through Foster Care: a Less Expensive Alternative Posted: 24 Feb 2015 07:59 AM PST The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Children's Bureau reports that nearly 400,000 American children were in foster care in 2012, and about a quarter of those were waiting to be adopted. Many potential adoptive parents don't realize that "because these children are in the custody of the county or the state, that county or state covers all those court costs that an individual would pay for a private agency," explains Rita Soronen, president and CEO of the nonprofit Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Parents may need to pay upfront for a home study (when a social worker interviews the family in their home), she adds, but typically those costs can be reimbursed through workplace adoption benefits, military adoption benefits or adoption tax credits. The majority of children adopted through foster care receive a financial or medical subsidy from their state until they reach the age of majority in that state, and many states offer college tuition waivers for adopted youth, which can further reduce a family's costs, Soronen adds.

S.C. State struggles to stay afloat: Can historically black colleges survive? Posted: 24 Feb 2015 06:01 AM PST A financial crisis plaguing the South Carolina State University has pushed a larger issue into the spotlight: the fate of historically black colleges and universities across the United States. Earlier this month, South Carolina lawmakers proposed shutting down the state's only public historically black college for a two-year period. The announcement came the same week President Obama met with the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss the future of the nation's historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. To the chagrin of many attending the meeting, Mr. Obama reportedly said that the lowest performing institutions "should fall by the wayside." The discussion raised questions about the future of HBCUs in America, institutions that have received flak in recent years for being financially unsustainable and leaving graduates poorly prepared and crippled with debt.

10 Colleges Where Graduates Have the Least Student Loan Debt Posted: 24 Feb 2015 06:00 AM PST The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College, The Short List: Grad School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matter to you in your college or grad school search.

The Best Investment the U.S. Could Make — Affordable Higher Education Posted: 24 Feb 2015 03:15 AM PST The most frequently cited remedy for rising inequality is more and better education. According to this view, many workers do not have the skills they need to be successful in a globalized economy, and this "skills gap" can only be overcome through improved educational outcomes. First, wages have stagnated for both the college educated and those without a college degree. So a college education is no guarantee of immunity from rising inequality.

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