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Apollo Group fell$. 22 or 1.1 percent, to $20.00. Career Education Corp. fell$. 12 or 3.5 percent, to $3.34. DeVry rose$. 45 or 1.8 percent, to $25.62.
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Apollo Group fell$. 20 or 1.0 percent, to $20.02. Career Education Corp. fell$. 14 or 4.0 percent, to $3.32. DeVry rose$. 19 or. 8 percent, to $25.36.
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CARSON CITY, Nev.-- The Nevada Supreme Court thrust the discussion about taxes onto state lawmakers Thursday, upholding a business tax proposal backed by the state teachers union and other labor groups and sending it to the 2013 Legislature.
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Apollo Group rose$. 37 or 1.8 percent, to $20.59. Career Education Corp. rose$. 01 or. 1 percent, to $3.46. DeVry rose$. 26 or 1.0 percent, to $25.43.
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TOPEKA, Kan.-- The top Democrat in the Kansas Senate warned Thursday that there would be a "firestorm of protests" if senators follow the state House and approve a measure restricting political fundraising by public employee unions and teachers. Similar legislation cleared the House in 2011 but died in the Senate.
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Edward I. Koch, the master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as mayor of New York with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams, died Friday morning at age 88.
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More Chinese students are enrolled at American colleges than ever before, but US degrees that are not from Harvard aren't widely valued at home. The Christian Science Monitor reports
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Institutions with the biggest endowments reported the highest returns, according to a study by Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officers. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, endowments of more than $1 billion had the best returns, with a gain of 0.8 percent.
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Apollo Group rose$. 40 or 2.0 percent, to $20.22. Career Education Corp. rose$. 22 or 6.8 percent, to $3.46. DeVry rose$. 77 or 3.2 percent, to $25.17.
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Apollo Group rose$. 10 or. 5 percent, to $19.92. Career Education Corp. rose$. 10 or 3.1 percent, to $3.34. DeVry rose$. 57 or 2.3 percent, to $24.97.
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Apollo Group rose$. 01 or. 1 percent, to $19.83. Career Education Corp. fell$. 01 or. 3 percent, to $3.23. DeVry rose$. 09 or. 4 percent, to $24.49.
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Tom Corbett on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to end the state monopoly over the sale of liquor and wine by replacing hundreds of state-owned stores with twice as many private outlets and allowing beer and wine to be sold at a wide range of stores.
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Apollo Group fell$. 25 or 1.2 percent, to $19.82. Career Education Corp. fell$. 09 or 2.7 percent, to $3.24. DeVry rose$. 21 or. 9 percent, to $24.40.
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Credit rating company Trans Union released a 5-year study that says the average student loan balance has jumped 30 percent. CNBC's Scott Cohn reports details of the study.
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Apollo Group fell$. 21 or 1.0 percent, to $19.86. Career Education Corp. fell$. 06 or 1.8 percent, to $3.27. DeVry rose$. 18 or. 7 percent, to $24.37.
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ALBANY, N.Y.-- The Board of Regents is seeking a 3.5 percent increase in funds for New York's public schools, about $100 million more than what Gov. Education Commissioner John King outlined the board's funding request, specifically in formula aid, during a joint budget hearing Tuesday of Assembly and Senate members.
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Apollo Group fell$. 18 or. 9 percent, to $19.89. Career Education Corp. fell$. 04 or 1.1 percent, to $3.30. DeVry rose$. 14 or. 6 percent, to $24.33.
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BOISE, Idaho-- The Idaho House Education Committee has agreed to debate bills that would give school boards more power when negotiating with teacher unions, even though similar laws were already struck down by voters last November.
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NEW YORK-- After taking a $4.5 billion hit from Superstorm Sandy and losing out on hundreds of millions of anticipated dollars in school aid and taxi permit sales this year, the city can balance its $70.1 billion budget for next year without imposing new taxes or layoffs, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday as he laid out his spending plan.
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A new study on student loans offers more evidence of the financial squeeze facing recent college graduates. But nearly as striking is the company behind the study: TransUnion.