PHILADELPHIA (AP) - For students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, there IS such a thing as a free lunch - and a free breakfast, too. With no strings attached. The Philadelphia school district's unique program provides free food for all children in schools with a high percentage of low-income students, dispensing with the cumbersome forms parents must fill out elsewhere to qualify their kids for free meals.
ORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - With a fattened GI Bill covering full tuition and more, the number of veterans attending college this fall is expected to jump 30 percent from last year to nearly half a million.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - River views, granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, 9-foot ceilings. This is student housing?
When classes start this fall - if all goes as planned - more than 300 students at Johnson & Wales University will be living in Capitol Cove, an upscale condominium project that had been languishing on the market for more than six months.
"It's a great Band-Aid," said Irving Schneider, president of Johnson & Wales's Providence campus, which just signed a three-year lease for the Capitol Cove development. "This arrangement was good for the developer as well as Johnson & Wales."
Now that the school year is over, Stephanie Williams of Spartan Echo TV found out what freshmen thought of their first year at Norfolk State University and what they'd do differently or look forward to next year.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless. So much for those carefree college days. The vast majority of college students are feeling stressed these days, and significant numbers are at risk of depression, according to an Associated Press-mtv-U poll.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A year ago, Sonia Yaco got the call that archivists likely might dream about: We have boxes of old documents and don't know what to do with them. Would Old Dominion University like them? The boxes contained original letters related to the desegregation of Norfolk public schools, yellowed newspaper clippings and onion-skin internal memos primarily covering the 1950s to 1980s.
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's an end of an era for the thousands of college students who rely on MasterCard or Visa to get them through tight times. Under a new law, credit card companies will be prohibited from giving cards to people under 21 unless they can prove they have the means to repay the debt or a parent or guardian co-signs for the loan.
WASHINGTON (AP) - School's out, surf's up, summer beckons. Time for college students to see if they can stay afloat in the worst economy their generation has known.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The mayor of Providence wants to slap a $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students at Brown University and three other private colleges in the city, saying they use resources and should help ease the burden on struggling taxpayers.
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