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...with autistic children. And because federal law requires school districts to provide an extended school day and even residential services if a special-education student needs them, his parents informed Colorado's Thompson school district it had to pick up the bill for Boston Higashi's $135,000 annual tuition...
...community colleges, the top schools are determined to tear down barriers to entry for the brightest of them. Admissions officers from Harvard, Yale and Stanford weave their outreach tours through low-income ZIP codes and remote rural areas, starting new summer academies for promising candidates and waiving their tuition if they do make it in. Harvard's class of 2009 included 22% more students from families who earned under $60,000 than the class of 2008. Like many other colleges, Harvard also gives some preferences to well-connected applicants like legacies (the children of alumni), but Fitzsimmons says his school...
...funds a full year of traveling in the developing world. Schools once derided as "safeties" stand taller now, as they make the case that excellence is not always a function of exclusivity. Some kids end up getting into Harvard and then turning it down because of the $30,000 tuition or the lecture-hall class sizes or because in the course of the hunt they conclude that they would fit better elsewhere. And in making their choice, they get to make their own statement about what is important in an education, and even teach their parents some lessons...
...undergraduate law degree in Great Britain and working at law firm Clifford Chance Wong in Singapore, Lim, now 28, had a change of heart about his choice of career. "I found litigation aggressive and contentious," he says. Seeking a less confrontational career, he plunked down the $30,000 tuition fee needed to enroll in the private-banking program at Singapore Management University. Before he had even graduated, he'd bagged a job with Morgan Stanley's private bank in Singapore. "The way to move forward in this competitive industry," he says, "is to think...
...California," he pledged that in his first hundred days he'll propose more spending on education, infrastructure and renewable energy, along with tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses. He said he'll also lower property taxes for some low-income seniors and roll back public college tuition hikes Schwarzenegger implemented, while fighting for a minimum-wage hike and offering plans to expand child health-care coverage. "And I'll do what President Clinton did," Angelides added. "I'll balance the budget...