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• Students checked at hospital after eating marijuana candy
• Chicago schools' new debt deal tops U.S. muni sales next week
• Massachusetts man sentenced for threats to bomb schools in four states
• Facebook Inc (FB) Looks to College Students to Help Block Extremism
• Why college students shouldn’t be afraid of English degrees
• China's Xi calls for stricter party control of universities

Students checked at hospital after eating marijuana candy Posted: 09 Dec 2016 02:48 PM PST RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say six New York high school students who were checked out at a hospital had eaten a candy bar containing marijuana.

Chicago schools' new debt deal tops U.S. muni sales next week Posted: 09 Dec 2016 01:52 PM PST CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The financially struggling Chicago Board of Education next week will sell a new type of debt, armed with an investment grade rating from Fitch Ratings based on the bonds' ability to withstand a bankruptcy filing. The $500 million of capital improvement tax bonds slated to price through Barclays Capital are secured by a new property tax levy earmarked exclusively for capital spending and not by the school district's junk-rated general obligation pledge. The Chicago Public Schools cannot file for bankruptcy under Illinois law.

Massachusetts man sentenced for threats to bomb schools in four states Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:50 AM PST A Massachusetts man arrested last year for making a series of bomb threats to schools in four U.S. states in 2015 has been sentenced to three years probation, according to court filings. Anthony Rae, 25, pleaded guilty in October to one criminal count of willfully making bomb threats, which came in a slew of emails to a Chicago elementary school and several East Coast public schools and colleges including North Carolina State University, Rhode Island College, and ITT Technical Institute in Massachusetts. It came amid a wave of similar threats to schools across the United States including one that caused Los Angeles to shutter all of its public schools for a day.

Facebook Inc (FB) Looks to College Students to Help Block Extremism Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:23 AM PST As concerns swirl over hate speech and trolls on social platforms like Facebook Inc (ticker: FB) and Twitter (TWTR), efforts to combat these problems hardly go unnoticed. The social network has partnered with EdVentures Partners and the State Department for the groups' "Peer to Peer: Challenging Extremism" competition approximately one year ago, where college students work to fight extremism through online campaigns as part of the contest. The goal is for students to develop shareable, insightful content for social media, as opposed to extremists who might take advantage of messaging, reports Business Insider.

Why college students shouldn’t be afraid of English degrees Posted: 09 Dec 2016 05:56 AM PST There is demand for these 'softer' skills.

China's Xi calls for stricter party control of universities Posted: 08 Dec 2016 10:52 PM PST China's president Xi Jinping has called for the Communist Party to exert greater ideological control over universities, state media reported Friday, amid a broad crackdown on academic freedom and dissent in the world's second-largest economy. Institutes of higher education must "serve the rule of the Chinese Communist Party and serve to strengthen and promote socialism with Chinese characteristics", Xi said at a meeting on ideological and political work that ended Thursday, according to the official Xinhua news service. The move is the latest effort by China's ruling Communist party to push its dogma in classrooms, raising fears over tightening limits on already curtailed academic and intellectual liberties.

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