Month: March 2010

Many years ago, when Lindsey Bohach was a little girl and her daddy was still alive, the state of Nevada made a promise: It would pay for the college education of kids whose parents died while serving as police officers or firefighters. Then, in 2001 …
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Putting your child through college is one of the best investments you can make. But it’s a huge investment, and it’s getting bigger. So given the buckets of money parents are pouring into their children’s college educations, shouldn’t there be some …
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Steve Oelrich, R-Cross Creek, who chaired … It has worked out very well for me,” said Scott Gordon, a 26-year-old former Navy hospital corpsman who is now enrolled at Florida State College Jacksonville. Joshua Gregory, a former Army Ranger from …
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Waterloo High School junior Brian Crave is an apprentice at The Crave Brothers farm in Waterloo, Wis. Each day Brian leaves school in the afternoon to work as an apprentice two to three hours on the family’s dairy farm. Wisconsin’s Youth …
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Waterloo High School junior Brian Crave is an apprentice at The Crave Brothers farm in Waterloo, Wis. Each day Brian leaves school in the afternoon to work as an apprentice two to three hours on the family’s dairy farm. Wisconsin’s Youth …
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s involvement in a nationwide effort to combat dismal college completion rates is casting new light on the hurdles students in the state … Indiana higher education commissioner Teresa Lubbers calls those rates …
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DAVENPORT — A new partnership between Eastern Iowa Community College District … the WIU-Quad Cities or EICCD campuses. Conservation courses such as Fisheries Management and Wildlife Management are taught at the Nahant Marsh Education Center in …
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State governors and education official’s proposed new national standards for K-12 education today, a step President Obama believes is a key to improving the quality of the nation’s schools. The voluntary guidelines, dubbed the “common core state …
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… school students who don’t want to go to college would have an option to pursue career-track studies under a bill being considered in the Mississippi Legislature … Senate Education Committee Chairman Videt Carmichael said the courses would …
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BERKELEY, Calif. – Students staged raucous rallies to protest education funding cuts on college campuses nationwide Thursday, but some demonstrations got out of hand as protesters threw punches and ice chunks in Wisconsin and shut down a major …
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