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• Starbucks expands college tuition benefit for workers
• Judge rules man accused of killing 3 Muslim college students can face death penalty trial
• High School Educators Talk Promposals
• These College Students Want to Fix the Criminal Justice System

Starbucks expands college tuition benefit for workers Posted: 06 Apr 2015 04:05 PM PDT Starbucks Corp is expanding its employee college tuition assistance program to cover the entire cost of getting an online bachelor's degree, the chief executive of the coffee chain said on Monday. The Seattle-based company, known for offering benefits such as healthcare and stock options, launched the "Starbucks College Achievement Plan" with Arizona State University in June 2014. The enhanced tuition reimbursement program from Starbucks comes at a time when an improving U.S. labor market is forcing major restaurant chains and retailers, including McDonald's Corp and Wal-Mart Stores Inc, to raise hourly wages and improve benefits to compete for the best workers. Chief Executive Howard Schultz said Starbucks expects to spend $250 million or more over a decade on tuition reimbursement, a perk he said Starbucks employees had requested.

Judge rules man accused of killing 3 Muslim college students can face death penalty trial Posted: 06 Apr 2015 11:56 AM PDT DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Judge rules man accused of killing 3 Muslim college students can face death penalty trial.

High School Educators Talk Promposals Posted: 06 Apr 2015 05:00 AM PDT They want to take advantage of it," says Rodney Logan, principal of Ewing High School in New Jersey, on the practice. "Prom has been going on for as long as I can remember and longer, so this just adds, I think, just a little more creativity to it, a little more fun," says Jayne Sheltra, an English teacher and the senior class adviser at Biddeford High School in Maine.

These College Students Want to Fix the Criminal Justice System Posted: 05 Apr 2015 11:28 AM PDT There are a bunch of new allies in the criminal justice reform movement, and they're a force to be reckoned with. No, we're not talking about conservatives like Newt Gingrich or the deep-pocketed Koch brothers. On Monday, student organizers at nine universities are joining forces to make it clear they care deeply about the movement to reform our country's criminal justice system. Organizers hope to catch the attention of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

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