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• Pregnancies more common among lesbian, gay, bisexual youths
• The 20 Colleges with the Best Food
• California governor proposes record $115.3 billion budget
• Make Room for These Scholarships on Your Senior Year To-Do List
• Why the news on high college costs is starting to get (a little) better

Pregnancies more common among lesbian, gay, bisexual youths Posted: 14 May 2015 01:33 PM PDT By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - Pregnancies are more common among lesbian, gay, bisexual youths than among their heterosexual counterparts, suggests a new study of New York City high school students. Overall, sexual-minority students who were sexually active were about twice as likely as other students to report becoming pregnant or getting someone pregnant, researchers found. "The message for me is that these populations are often ignored or assumed to not need information or reproductive care or services and they absolutely do," said Lisa Lindley, the study's lead author from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Previous studies had found an increased risk of pregnancies among sexual minority youths, but those data were old and mostly collected for girls only.

The 20 Colleges with the Best Food Posted: 14 May 2015 12:45 PM PDT High-schoolers and their parents have to weigh dozens of factors when selecting which of America's 4,726 institutions of higher learning they'd like to attend. There are the obvious academic considerations: ...

California governor proposes record $115.3 billion budget Posted: 14 May 2015 12:16 PM PDT Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday proposed a record $115.3 billion California spending plan that would send billions more to public schools, freeze in-state undergraduate tuition and establish a new state tax ...

Make Room for These Scholarships on Your Senior Year To-Do List Posted: 14 May 2015 07:00 AM PDT High school seniors have more college scholarship options than any other students, and by starting a list this summer, you'll be able to manage those options more easily. The Scholarship Coach has previously looked at some prestigious awards available to graduating high school students, like the Gates Millennium, Coca-Cola and National Merit Scholarships. Here are a few other scholarships to add to your list as your senior year approaches. One of the earliest and most lucrative scholarships that will open in the fall is the Elks National Foundation's Most Valuable Student Competition.

Why the news on high college costs is starting to get (a little) better Posted: 14 May 2015 05:47 AM PDT Nationally, tuition to public higher-education institutions rose only 1.2 percent in the past year after accounting for inflation – a far cry from the steep rises right after the 2008 recession. According to a report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released Wednesday, all but three states – North Dakota, Wyoming, and Alaska – are spending less per student than they did before the 2008 recession, and for some of the states the change has been dramatic. "For the past couple of years, states by-and-large have been reinvesting in higher education, and we're still 20 percent below what we were spending before the recession," says Michael Mitchell, a policy analyst at CBPP and an author of the report.

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