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California’s bill for regulating career colleges gets shot down, Governator-style

Flexing muscle is nothing new for Arnold Schwarzenegger – not in films and not in the halls of state government. Last month, California’s Governor squashed what he and career college proponents throughout the state thought to be an ineffectual bill for regulating private postsecondary schools.

Schwarzenegger let an earlier version of the bill die last summer without his signature and has criticized the latest version as a big mess that missed its mark.

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For better or worse, the career college sector was founded by entrepreneurs, and that entrepreneurial flame still burns.

Thin white lines left from jet engines mark the flight patterns above Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Departing planes rattle the rock gardens and the palm trees in the circle drives of airport area hotels, and the shrill liftoffs are audible even underwater in the deep ends of swimming pools.

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What the newest generation of the GI Bill is doing to help student veterans

The next generation of the GI Bill is here. Officially it is called the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008. It’s designed to offer today’s veterans the same educational opportunities afforded to veterans after World War II, when a $500-a-year stipend was enough to get an education just about anywhere in the United States.