Kids' seizure meds bill advances despite union opposition
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A bill that would allow schools to train employees to administer medication to children during a seizure passed out of the state Senate last week, despite strong opposition from nurses and teachers.
As drama in the state Capitol goes, this bill has it all.
It brings years of budget cuts to schools in sharp focus, galvanizing the opposition of teachers and nurses who implore the Legislature to send vocational nurses to schools to watch over epileptic students. School nurses are
Study: Student demographics, loan repayment largely unrelated
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The U.S. Department of Education last week released revised regulations on "gainful employment" – rules designed to hold for-profit colleges and some vocational programs at nonprofit universities accountable for their students' debt levels and employability.
Even though the rules have been widely viewed as weaker than earlier drafts, for-profit college officials and lobbyists still oppose them. Part of their argument has been that their students have more trouble repaying their