| Career education quarterly profit falls
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters) - For-profit education company Career Education Corp. (CECO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday quarterly net profit fell, hurt by revenue and margin declines in its typically strong-performing University segment. Consolidated net income from continuing operations for the fourth quarter was $39.9 million, or 41 cents a share, compared with $73.7 million, or 73 cents a share, a year ago. After a loss from discontinued operations, Career Education posted net income of 22 cents a share. Fourth-quarter consolidated revenue rose 10.5 percent to $429.1 million. Career Education's shares fell $2.09, or 7 percent, to $27.55 in after hours trading on Inet. .
Lottery idea: $20 a play for $1 million
Plans are in the works for an old-fashioned raffle -- a drawing game that harks back to the origins of lotteries in the United States. But this one will be up-to-date in its scope.Instead of paper ticket stubs, the state would offer 500,000 numbers for sale on play slips through the computer network in place at outlets statewide.The $20 cost of a ticket would establish a high mark for a single play since North Carolina launched its lottery in March.Four grand prizes of $1 million are planned. So if tickets sell out, $20 would buy a 1-in-125,000 shot at the big prize."It's about as good as it's going to get to win $1 million," lottery chief Tom Shaheen said of the odds.He said plans call for five additional winners of $100,000 and 500 winners of $1,000.The other 99.89 percent of the tickets would be losers.The game would generate roughly $3.5 million for education programs but would not make a big dent in what have been sluggish sales overall.Shaheen proposes that tickets go on sale in May and that winning numbers be drawn on the Fourth of July.
Funding addresses special education crises
The United States faces an ever increasing shortage of special education professors and teachers. According to a national survey of the country's doctoral programs, only two of three special education faculty positions are filled each year. In addition, the number of special education graduates has decreased while those awarded doctoral degrees in special education are choosing to work in arenas other than higher education. SF State has received funding from the U.S. Department of Education to address this crisis as well as to prepare special education teachers for the growing number of culturally and linguistically diverse students with autism. The Doctoral Special Education Leadership Preparation (SELP) project of the San Francisco State and University of California, Berkeley, joint doctoral program and Project Mosaic, which prepares special education teachers for work with Autism Spectrum Disorders, will each receive about $200,000 during the next four years.
Accredited Online Courses Make Continuing Education for Nursing ...
As the need for qualified nurses continues to outpace supply, nurses often find themselves spread too thinly. Online continuing education courses help relieve demands on nursing professionals' time by providing convenience and flexibility in meeting license renewal coursework requirements. (PRWeb) March 2, 2007 -- Nursing staff shortages across the U.S. and Canada have made it increasingly difficult for nurses to take time away from their shifts to physically attend continuing education for nursing courses. To help nurses keep their knowledge and credentials current, RN.ORG, Inc. announces the launch of its website to provide convenient, accredited, and cost-efficient online nursing continuing education courses. .
Four candidates run for two seats in May BHS election
BLOOMFIELD HILLS — There are four candidates running for two open seats in the Bloomfield Hills Schools Board of Education election on May 8. Terms for Vice President David Lubin and President Steve Weiss began in 2003 and will expire this year. Lubin is seeking to hold onto his seat, but Weiss did not seek re-election due to the demands of other commitments. New candidates who filed nominating petitions to run in the race are Ingrid Day of Bloomfield Township and Jenny Greenwell and Don Greenwell — husband and wife — of Bloomfield Hills. "I decided to run because I view myself as a very strong, positive voice. I really care about the education of every child in our school district," said Day, current president of the BHS Parent Teacher Organization Council. Day said that her main goal is to continue providing quality instruction by maintaining — if not increasing — current motivation and teamwork among faculty and staff in the district.
Teacher education efforts earn national award
ASU's College of Teacher Education and Leadership has a long-standing commitment to Arizona's education community through a variety of collaborations, outreach and programs. For its commitment, the college received a Best Practice Award for Effective Partnerships by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). ASU was honored at AACTE's 59th annual meeting and exhibits in New York. The award recognizes ASU's outstanding partnership collaboration among schools, colleges and departments of education, local schools or school districts and other community entities that have demonstrated measurable contributions to the achievement and learning of prekindergarten through 12th-grade students. The work that our members do with P-12 schools is critical to the success of our programs, said Sharon Robinson, AACTE's president and chief executive officer, in presenting the award to Mari Koerner, dean of the College of Teacher Education and Leadership.
Bill reauthorizes degrees for teachers at SSU
The measure encourages the State Board of Regents to create teacher education programs at all public four-year colleges and universities, but Jackson said his primary concern is SSU. "It would help in my little neck of the woods," Jackson told his fellow members of the House Higher Education Committee on Tuesday. He sponsored the bill because a constituent, Tuqwan Jordan, told him he has not been able to find a job in the 18 months since he graduated with a marketing degree from Savannah State University. Jordan claimed he already would have a job if he had been able to earn a teaching certificate at Savannah State. The House Higher Education Committee has recommended the bill's passage by the full House. Savannah State is one of seven Georgia universities that do not offer teaching degrees and the only one in Jackson's district without a teacher education program.
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