The Baltimore Sun reports on this career academy that opened up in 2006 that is going to be graduating its first class.

looking at college students who do not wind up federal loans because the college does not have access to them. These are mainly community-college students who can’t get these loans and total over 1 million college students.

Georgia and Alabama top the list for the percent of students not getting a federal loan.

The most common concern the report states as to why they opt is people defaulting on loans, but the people behind the report say that is not that big of a problem though.

with a report looking at California Colleges. The report says their guess on of the cost of going to college over the next decade and looks at the impact that the 2008-2009 budget cuts are going to have on the system.

In the first table they say that the students’ share of college costs have gone up big time for California State University Students and University Of California students from the years of 1998-99 to 2007-2008. Massive fee increases are apart of the increase.

The report does say if the budget cuts get put into place that 27,000 students as a whole will not be able to go a college or university in California due to the lack of funds from the state.

with 200 bags of heroin. His excuse for selling the stuff was college is too expensive. His bail is set at 200,000 bucks.

Last year two college students get arrested for robbing a bank and used the same excuse.

This is not a trend you want to see, but it looks like it will becoming.

to firing some school nurses in order to hire more nursing aides to save cash. The article says they can save 600,000 if they get rid of 12 nurses.

This may save them money, but it may kill quality of service.

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