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	<description>Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics</description>
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		<title>Proposed Arizona education standards aim for &#8216;deeper learning&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/21/proposed-arizona-education-standards-aim-for-deeper-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona education officials are floating the first draft of a new set of science standards, and the public has until June 1 to comment.]]></description>
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		<title>Brewer vetoes online education bill</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/15/brewer-vetoes-online-education-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have changed how the state regulates online education.]]></description>
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		<title>Tests show Arizona students still behind in science</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/11/tests-show-arizona-students-still-behind-in-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona students are among the lowest-performing when it comes to science.
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		<title>4 indicted in student aid scheme that used inmates</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/07/4-indicted-in-student-aid-scheme-that-used-inmates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors say they have broken up a ring of women who used the names of Perryville prison inmates to fraudulently get federal student financial aid.]]></description>
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		<title>University system gets funding increases after years of cuts&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/04/university-system-gets-funding-increases-after-years-of-cuts/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/04/university-system-gets-funding-increases-after-years-of-cuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Board of Regents began the legislative session seeing nothing in any budget proposal for two of its prime spending requests:

Money for parity among the three universities and for the Phoenix campus of the University of Arizona medical school.]]></description>
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		<title>A year after preferential treatment ban, little change on state’s campuses</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/05/03/a-year-after-preferential-treatment-ban-little-change-on-state%e2%80%99s-campuses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 16:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Snyder, Cronkite News Service</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[inclusivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minority enrollment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prop. 107]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ward Connerly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – It’s been more than a year since Arizona voters banned preferential treatment in state services based on race, ethnicity and gender – but little has changed on the state’s university campuses in that time.

Undergraduate enrollment officials say they never considered race in the first place – others say the schools were never selective enough for race to make a difference – and that minority enrollment has actually increased slightly.]]></description>
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		<title>Brewer signs bill to allow course on Bible</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/17/brewer-signs-bill-to-allow-course-on-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill to allow public high schools in Arizona to offer an elective high school course on the Bible and its role in Western culture is now Arizona law.

Gov. Jan Brewer on Tuesday signed legislation requiring the state Board of Education to design a curriculum for schools to teach if they choose.]]></description>
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		<title>Senate panel advances Patterson’s Regent nomination</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/09/senate-panel-advances-patterson%e2%80%99s-regent-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luige del Puerto</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Schapira]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lori Klein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A panel of lawmakers today advanced the nomination of a former legislator and conservative blogger to the Arizona Board of Regents after he promised to scale back and avoid the usually controversial subjects he delves into.]]></description>
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		<title>Senate to meet on Board of Regents nominees</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/09/senate-to-meet-on-board-of-regents-nominees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State legislators will continue discussions of two appointments to the Arizona Board of Regents.]]></description>
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		<title>Regents unanimously agree to raise tuition for graduate students&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/05/regents-unanimously-agree-to-raise-tuition-for-graduate-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Quizon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graduate students at Arizona’s three public universities will see across-the-board tuition increases in the next academic year, under plans submitted by university presidents and approved by the state Board of Regents today.]]></description>
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