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A new national poll released today shows strong support for "for-profit" education in this economic decline. The poll conducted by Lake Research Partners for Americans For Democratic Action Education Fund surveyed 1,000 adults with oversamples of 500 African Americans, 500 Latino/as, and 250 lower-income whites. The poll shows that "for-profit education empowers minority groups, and does not hinder them. People believe higher education is ...

BBC News - Facebook sex scam US teenager makes plea bargain

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Prosecutors said they were happy with the deal A US teenager who blackmailed fellow students at his secondary school to have sex after using their Facebook images has agreed a plea bargain. Anthony Stancl, 19, who pleaded no contest to repeated sexual assault of a child - faces up to 50 years in jail. He allegedly posed as a girl online and then asked classmates in Wisconsin to send him their naked pictures - using them ...

D.C.'s City Collegiate Public Charter School plans to close

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A four-year-old D.C. charter school plans to close at the end of June because of falling enrollment and financial concerns. Officials with City Collegiate Public Charter School, a middle school in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, told the D.C. Public Charter School Board of the plans Monday evening. There's no right time to close a school, but we've looked at next year, and we believe we would not have the enrollment, the per-pupil funding ...