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Lawsuit from for-profit college calls California group "co-conspirator" | California Watch

Lawsuit from for-profit college calls California group "co-conspirator" | California Watch

Lawsuit from for-profit college calls California group "co-conspirator"

A lawsuit filed this week by a for-profit college in Florida accuses a nearby public college of conspiring with outside groups, including the Institute for College Access and Success in Oakland, to sully the for-profit's image and harm its business.

Fort Lauderdale-based Keiser University, a privately held proprietary college, filed suit on Monday against Florida

Whooping cough epidemic spurs new law to vaccinate all 7th graders

Next school year, all students in junior high and high school will be required to get a whooping cough booster, a measure motivated by an ongoing epidemic of the illness like none seen since 1955.

And in the 2012 school year and thereafter, students entering seventh grade will be required to get a whooping cough booster before going to school.

The measure – written by Assemblyman Juan Arambula, D-Fresno, and approved by Gov. Arnold