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NEWARK, N.J. – A man who pleaded guilty in the execution-style killings of three college students in a New Jersey schoolyard in 2007 is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday. Prosecutors say Melvin Jovel will likely spend the rest of his life in prison
Daniel Remold, a journalism professor at the University of Tampa, says his passion is campus media. Can he help it if the big story over the last decade is about sex? His new book, Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution (Rutgers University Press), provides insights gleaned from reading more than 2,500 student sex columns.
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A group of Kansas public school districts filed a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the state has again unconstitutionally short-changed students. The lawsuit alleges that the state failed to provide sufficient money to comply with a funding plan that resulted from a previous lawsuit that was settled in 2006, according to a statement from the districts’ lawyers. “While the court-approved plan called for $755 million in new funding, the legislature and governor have thus far cut over $303 million from the schools,” the statement said
College tuition costs shot up again this fall, and students and their families are leaning more on the federal government to make higher education affordable in tough economic times, according to two reports Thursday.
As their state financing dwindled, four-year public universities increased their published tuition and fees almost 8 percent this year, to an average of $7,605, according to the College Board ’s annual reports. When room and board are included, the average in-state student at a public university now pays $16,140 a year
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday will release finalized regulations targeting for-profit colleges that give the government a stronger hand overseeing the fast-growing sector — including new rules reining in how recruiters are paid and a controversial attempt to define credit hours.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – A Massachusetts teen charged with having sexual contact with a bullying victim who later killed herself is returning to court. Prosecutors and attorneys for 19-year-old Austin Renaud of Springfield are due in Hampshire Superior Court on Tuesday to discuss scheduling, including when his trial might start.
WESTCHESTER, N.Y.
It is 8:30 a.m. at De La Salle Academy , a private school in Manhattan for academically talented poor children, and classical music is humming through a boom box that harks back to the 1980s. Children are streaming up four flights of stairs and surrounding the school’s founder and principal, Brother Brian Carty, like moths fluttering around a light.
TORRANCE, Calif. – Officials say portable cooking equipment has exploded in a Southern California classroom, sending 10 high school students to the hospital. Officials told the Daily Breeze that four of the injured teens at North High School in Torrance were seriously hurt in the Friday afternoon blast.