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Major Elementary School Project in Juneau to Conclude This Year

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JUNEAU, Alaska — The overhaul of Auke Bay Elementary School is set to be complete by Oct. 1 of this year. The school — long overdue for major renovations — has been under construction since June 2012.

Although the initial target completion date was the first day of school for the 2013-2014 academic year —Aug. 20 — the project team feels confident that the extended schedule won’t interrupt the beginning of classes. Problems installing the new elevator system and quality issues with the soil caused the delay in the schedule.

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Center for Health Studies Opens at Prince George’s Community College

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KETTERING, Md. — A new Center for Health Studies has opened at Prince George’s Community College showcasing a state-of-the-art learning facility with 26 simulation labs and full-body mannequins to simulate a wide variety of medical situations from surgery to radiography.

Heery International, with offices in Baltimore, designed the $33 million center that stands at 112,000 square feet.

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Student Loan Rates to be Reduced

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill that would lower the cost of borrowing student loans and reverse a recent loan rate hike has gone to President Barack Obama for approval.

After the House overwhelming approved the bill in a 392-31 vote, students in the United States may soon receive lower interest rates for federal student loans.

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Funding Awarded for Higher Education in Illinois

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QUINCY, Ill. — Dozens of private universities in Illinois recently discovered that they would receive millions of dollars of additional funding from the state. The funding is a result of a capital construction program that helps fund campus development for private colleges and universities.

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Texas A&M Plans New Urban Entomology Facility

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — A new facility for the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University, to be named the Center for Urban and Structural Entomology, will begin construction soon. This 11,000-square-foot facility will ensure that the university remains a strong participant in the discovery, development and implementation of research to control insects in and around homes and other structures.

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Pitt County School Faces Issues with Segregation

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GREENVILLE, N.C. — The UNC Center for Civil Rights (CCR) is representing a group of African American parents and the Pitt County Coalition for Educating Black Children in a case concerning racial segregation in a North Carolina school district. This district — Pitt County Schools (PCS) — put a plan into action in 2011 that redistributed students throughout the district for 2012. This redistribution left many schools with a disproportionately high number of minority students.

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Philadelphia Schools in Crisis

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PHILADELPHIA — Surviving with a $304 million deficit, teachers, staff and education activists of the School District of Philadelphia are calling the funding shortage of area schools a crisis.

In a letter addressed to Education Secretary Arne Duncan from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and education activist Diane Ravitch, Duncan is pressured to intervene.

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