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• Chipotle shares take fresh hit after Boston College students fall ill
• Boston College students treated after eating at Chipotle
• Illinois Senate sends piecemeal funding bill to governor
• 'Star Wars,' 'Minecraft' Tutorials Help Teachers Offer Hour of Code Event
• Supreme Court revisits Texas affirmative action in new case
• Police: 2 New York college students abducted, held hostage
• Forgiving Student Debt Might Not Be a Win for All Students

Chipotle shares take fresh hit after Boston College students fall ill Posted: 07 Dec 2015 04:55 PM PST By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than 20 Boston College students got sick after eating at Chipotle Mexican Grill over the weekend, sending its shares down 6 percent in extended trading on Monday on fears of more food poisoning problems at the popular burrito chain. Chipotle said it had temporarily closed its restaurant in Boston's Cleveland Circle, where a college spokesman said all the students reported eating, while it works with local health officials to investigate the illnesses. The sickened students included members of the Boston College men's basketball team, spokesman Jack Dunn said.

Boston College students treated after eating at Chipotle Posted: 07 Dec 2015 04:54 PM PST BOSTON (AP) — More than 20 Boston College students, including at least eight members of the men's basketball team, complained of gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at a Chipotle restaurant, school officials said Monday.

Illinois Senate sends piecemeal funding bill to governor Posted: 07 Dec 2015 03:37 PM PST By Karen Pierog CHICAGO (Reuters) - Another piece of Illinois' unfinished fiscal 2016 budget fell into place on Monday with the state Senate's unanimous passage of a bill to send $3.1 billion to local governments, lottery winners, bondholders and others. The Senate vote, which followed last week's approval by the state House of Representatives, sends the measure to Governor Bruce Rauner, who signaled his intention to sign it into law after the bill was expanded to include his funding priorities. The only budget bill signed by the governor funded primary and secondary public schools.

'Star Wars,' 'Minecraft' Tutorials Help Teachers Offer Hour of Code Event Posted: 07 Dec 2015 05:00 AM PST Before they see the new "Star Wars" movie, high schoolers can join forces with Princess Leia to build a game during the Hour of Code this week. The global event aims to expose students to computer science and coding basics. "The purpose of it is to demystify computer science and coding and show that all students -- no matter their background, age, race, gender -- can understand and appreciate coding and computer science," says Pat Yongpradit, chief academic officer of Code.org.

Supreme Court revisits Texas affirmative action in new case Posted: 07 Dec 2015 12:08 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Basketball coaches, leading military officers and many of the country's biggest businesses agree that the Supreme Court should preserve the use of race as a factor in college admissions. But they may be in a fight they cannot win, as the justices take up a case that presages tighter limits on affirmative action in higher education.

Police: 2 New York college students abducted, held hostage Posted: 06 Dec 2015 09:14 PM PST ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Two missing New York college students have been found safe after police say they were abducted and held hostage.

Forgiving Student Debt Might Not Be a Win for All Students Posted: 06 Dec 2015 08:17 AM PST The joint report by Demos and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy, two progressive think tanks, found that getting rid of all student-loan debt—writing off the amount college grads borrowed to get a bachelor's degree or to complete graduate school—would help white households far more than African American ones and would actually increase wealth disparities between the two groups. "Traditionally, we have viewed higher education as an antidote to inequality, but our higher education system, like so many of our institutions, is rife with racial and class disparities, from enrollment to completion," reads the report, titled Less Debt, More Equity: Lowering Student Debt While Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap. Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst for Demos and a coauthor of the study, says the results indicate that politicians and policy makers who want to make higher education affordable should keep unintended consequences in mind.

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