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NEW YORK – Shares of for-profit education companies slid Monday as government data showed that many of their students aren’t repaying school loans, which could imperil the ability of their students to receive federal financial aid, the bulk of the schools’ revenue. Several schools contested the government’s methodology, but that couldn’t stop shares of the companies from tumbling to their lowest points in a year or more. For-profit schools offer a wide range of programs and certificates, from associate’s degrees in the culinary arts at Career Education Corp.’s Le Cordon Bleu to MBA degrees from the Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix

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BISHOP, Calif. – A fiery crash on an eastern Sierra Nevada highway killed three people, including a university cheerleading coach, and injured a dozen student-athletes, authorities said Tuesday. Wendy Rice of California Baptist University died Monday night when an SUV swerved into the center median of U.S.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Dave Ebersbach lost his job as a math teacher this summer, and he spends each day hoping that his poverty-stricken school in Ohio will call up and offer him his position back. He and thousands of other teachers around the country could get their jobs back now that the Senate has approved an emergency stimulus package designed to keep educators and other public employees out of the unemployment line. ANALYSIS: Teacher pension funds are short billions SURVEY: Self-evaluation better than parent, student evaluation, teachers say “My biggest thing is I want to go back to the school I was at for the students,” said Ebersbach, 43, one of 14 math teachers in the Toledo school district to receive notice a few weeks ago that their jobs were cut

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Michelle Rhee, the reform-minded chancellor who took over the District of Columbia public schools three years ago, on Friday fired 241 teachers, or 5 percent of the district’s total. All but a few of those dismissed had received the lowest rating under a new evaluation system that for the first time held them accountable for their students’ standardized test scores

WASHINGTON (AP) — The D.C. Public Schools are firing 241 teachers and warning more than 700 other employees that they could be fired in the next year if their performance doesn’t improve

NEW YORK – Dozens of high school students are getting the chance to shine under the bright lights of Broadway as they compete for college scholarships .