City National Bank is now accepting applications from educators for grants to support literacy-based projects at elementary, middle and high schools in California, New York and Nevada.
The online application can be accessed by visiting http://www.readingisthewayup.org/literacy.asp. Any full-time teacher, librarian, administrator or school media specialist at a school in the county of New York, or in [...]

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation announced that it entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Briarwood College for approximately $11.4 million in cash. Briarwood is regionally accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and currently offers two Bachelor’s degree programs and 31 Associate’s degree programs to approximately 700 students from Connecticut [...]

Lincoln Educational Services Corporation announced that it will host a conference call to discuss its third quarter 2008 earnings on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. A news release outlining Lincoln’s financial results will be issued before 9:30 a.m. Eastern time on the same day.
To access the live web cast of the [...]

Attorney General Troy King issued an opinion this month saying a scholarship program that has used $500,000 in Anniston city funds to help high school students pay for college is unconstitutional and should be stopped.
The Anniston City Schools Foundation Next Start scholarships have helped 480 Anniston High School graduates go to college since 1998, but [...]

The Catholic Schools Foundation held its 17th Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Dinner celebration at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on March 28. Troy Brown, wide receiver for the New England Patriots and trustee of the Catholic Schools Foundation was the evening’s featured speaker.
The dinner is held annually to celebrate and support the Inner-City Scholarship Fund [...]

Mayor Sheila Dixon joined representatives from Hilton Hotels Corporation, the National Academy Foundation, CollegeBound Foundation and the Baltimore Hotel Corporation, at Digital Harbor High School in Federal hill to announce that the Hilton Hotels Corporation has established the Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel Scholarship Fund.
Executives from Hilton Hotels Corporation, which will operate and manage [...]

City leaders want Matt Atkinson’s name to live on in Green Bay for generations, but in order for that to happen they need to raise more money.
On September 14 last year, Atkinson told school staff at Green Bay East High School about an attack three of his peers were planning.
Police arrested East students William Cornell [...]

Lawyer Sheryl N. Young was a young mom when she began attending Oklahoma City University School of Law in the late 1980s. Today she is a shareholder at McAfee & Taft in Oklahoma City.
“The Sumners Scholarship and the evening program at OCU gave me the opportunity to go to law school as a then single [...]

St. John’s University is launching a new study abroad program this month called, “Discover the World.”
The intensive study program, a first for the Queens-based Catholic university, will take place in Paris, France; Rome, Italy; and Salamanca, Spain. The school is also considering opening satellite locations in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Universities and colleges across New [...]

The Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers donated $10,000 to the Pittsburgh Promise scholarship program yesterday as school Superintendent Mark Roosevelt and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl called on others to step forward with contributions.
The teachers’ contribution was the first to the scholarship fund, a city-school district partnership launched in December. “We don’t really even have an account set [...]