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The University of California, Berkeley is investigating allegations of police brutality against students and employees protesting fee hikes and budget cuts last week. In a letter Monday, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau says the campus police department is...
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Mo. — Community colleges have joined Missouri's four-year colleges and universities in agreeing to freeze tuition next school year if state officials promise to nick and not slash their budgets. Gov. Jay Nixon said Friday that community colleges have...
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Alabama's Prepaid Affordable College Tuition board voted 7-3 this afternoon to change the way its money is invested, shifting most of its assets from stocks to bonds...The amount kept as cash would depend on cash flow and tuition expenses.
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In an about-face, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs said today she will ask the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board to hold off on changes in the way people can get refunds from the Texas Tomorrow Fund. Instead, she is recommending that the status...
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TEXAS, WHICH LEADS THE NATION IN FREEING THE WRONGLY CONVICTED, WILL SOON BE PAYING EX-CONS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER A LIFETIME BECAUSE OF A NEW LAW THAT WENT INTO EFFECT THIS WEEK. Exonerees will get $80,000 for each year they spent behind bars. The...
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The board of directors of Alabama's Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program voted today to wait for the results of a new study of the program's finances, and to try again for a legislative solution to its problems. A Retirement Systems of Alabama...
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The House of Representatives approved a proposed constitutional amendment today to borrow $150 million from another state fund to help cover payments under the state's troubled prepaid tuition program. The bill now moves to the Senate. Voters would...
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Russell County tax collections have picked up after a rocky start, Tax Commissioner Naomi Elliott said. “We’re supposed to collect $19 million. We’ve collected 98 to 99 percent of that already,” she said. “I only have $98,000 to $100,000 left to collect.
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Gov. Jim Folsom this morning predicted Alabama lawmakers this year would pass legislation to ensure that the 48,000 participants enrolled in the state's prepaid college tuition program will receive their full tuition benefits as outlined in their contracts....
Wallace-Folsom Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Plan, lets people pay a fixed amount when a child is young in anticipation of getting tuition and fees paid at an in-state public university after finishing high school. Plan managers have told the nearly...
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