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• Kids, teachers ditch school as crisis engulfs Venezuela
• DIVIDED AMERICA: Minorities missing in many legislatures
• How colleges investigate sexual assault on campus
• Feds Propose Decertifying Accreditor of For-Profit Colleges

Kids, teachers ditch school as crisis engulfs Venezuela Posted: 16 Jun 2016 09:09 AM PDT By Alexandra Ulmer LA FRIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Mariangel Caceres' teachers, whose salaries do not buy enough food to live on, stopped showing up for classes early this year. The state school in the verdant Andean state of Tachira in Venezuela also had to cut back on providing meals due to nationwide food shortages. Education is no longer a priority for many poor and middle-class Venezuelans who are swept up in the all-consuming quest for food amid a wave of looting and riots.

DIVIDED AMERICA: Minorities missing in many legislatures Posted: 16 Jun 2016 07:49 AM PDT As Virginia's only Latino state lawmaker, Alfonso Lopez made it his first order of business to push for a law granting in-state college tuition to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally since childhood.

How colleges investigate sexual assault on campus Posted: 16 Jun 2016 06:30 AM PDT Growing attention to the problem of sexual assault on college campuses has raised interesting constitutional concerns.

Feds Propose Decertifying Accreditor of For-Profit Colleges Posted: 15 Jun 2016 12:39 PM PDT The Education Department on Wednesday recommended that the organization that accredits many of the nation's for-profit colleges and vocational schools shouldn't be recognized, a step that could threaten access to nearly $5 billion in federal financial aid for more than 800,000 students. The decision also has the potential to hasten the consolidation of the for-profit college sector as it could drive out of business many schools that lose access to student loans as well as students leery of attending schools under the regulatory microscope. The move could mean the sector, already in decline amid tightening federal regulation, "will implode even faster," said Trace Urdan, managing director at Credit Suisse and a longtime analyst of the for-profit college industry.

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