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• Millennials Are Feeling Better About Their Finances
• 3 ex-educators in Atlanta cheating case to be resentenced
• College students seek out alternative spring break in Ferguson, Missouri
• U.S. cracks down on female teachers who sexually abuse students

Millennials Are Feeling Better About Their Finances Posted: 21 Apr 2015 03:17 PM PDT At a time when Americans are shouldering a crippling $1.2 trillion in student debt, it comes as no surprise that paying for higher education is the biggest financial concern for parents with children who are younger than 18 and planning to go to college. It may be more of a surprise that the young adults so often burdened with those loans now feel better about their finances than people in any other age group. In a new Gallup poll released this week, 73 percent of parents with kids below age 18 ranked paying for college as a financial worry — more than said they were concerned about saving enough for retirement and covering medical expenses. Parents "face twin challenges of paying for ever-escalating college expenses for one or more children and saving for their own retirement," Gallup's Jeffrey Jones wrote in a blog post detailing the survey results.

3 ex-educators in Atlanta cheating case to be resentenced Posted: 21 Apr 2015 12:16 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — A judge plans to resentence three former Atlanta public school educators who got the stiffest sentences after they were convicted in a conspiracy to inflate student scores on standardized tests.

College students seek out alternative spring break in Ferguson, Missouri Posted: 21 Apr 2015 10:39 AM PDT This March and April, about 200 college students from around the country met in Ferguson, Mo., to participate in an alternative spring break program. The program, which ran in single-week increments spanning five weeks through April 11, connected university students with local residents and activists who together helped clean up the city, run food drives and register voters. The project offered college students from around the U.S. a chance to discuss issues with community members and to address the needs of residents in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson in August 2014.

U.S. cracks down on female teachers who sexually abuse students Posted: 21 Apr 2015 06:45 AM PDT By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A "Saturday Night Live" skit about a male student having sex with his female high school teacher painted the relationship as every teen boy's dream, but drew a firestorm of criticism on social media. The reaction to the comedy sketch reflected a growing view among law enforcement and victims' advocacy groups that it is no laughing matter when a woman educator preys on her male students. In U.S. schools last year, almost 800 school employees were prosecuted for sexual assault, nearly a third of them women. The proportion of women facing charges seems to be higher than in years past, when female teachers often got a pass, said Terry Abbott, a former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education, who tracked the cases.

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