Lincoln Educational Services Corporation Reports Record Revenue and Enrollment in the Third Quarter.
WEST ORANGE, N.J., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation ("Lincoln") reported third quarter 2008 results. Highlights: -- Record revenue of $100.5 million for the third quarter of 2008, an increase of 16.1% from $86.6 million for the third quarter of 2007. ...

State's Tax-Favored College Savings Program Adds New Investment Option; Also Improves Managed Allocation Investment Offering.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Kentucky families interested in saving for their children's college education now have a new investment option through the state's tax-favored Education Savings Plan Trust. Participants may now choose to invest in a diversified 100% Equity Option comprised of domestic and international...

An alternative to net price: assessing the influence of prices and subsidies on within-year persistence.
The theory of net price, as it applies to student demand for higher education, has become a problematic concept for administrators and policy makers. On the one hand, economic theory on higher education holds that students respond to a single net price [15]. On the other hand, enrollments do not...

ITT Educational Services, Inc. Reports 2006 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results, New Student Enrollment Increased 15.6 Percent.
CARMEL, Ind., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ITT Educational Services, Inc. , a leading provider of technology-oriented postsecondary degree programs, today reported that new student enrollment in the fourth quarter of 2006 increased 15.6 percent to 10,208 compared to 8,828 in the same period of 2005. Total student enrollment increased...

Tax Extenders And Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act Of 2008.
On October 3, 2008, following weeks of contentious negotiations between the House and Senate, Congress approved and the President signed into law a comprehensive tax extenders bill as part of H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. For more than a year, businesses and industry groups have...

Some say strapped LCC must up tuition.
Byline: GREG BOLT The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran 3/6/020; Lane Community College student Gregory Dunkin's affiliation with the college was incorrect in a Tuesday story on LCC's budget problem. Dunkin is the campus events and multicultural coordinator. Lane Community College will be a more expensive school...

College education funding: maximizing family tax savings and financial aid.
ABSTRACT With the average cost of a college education at public and private institutions estimated to rise to $60,000 and $200,000, respectively, by the year 2007, the need for financial planning for college is more critical than ever. While changes and additions to the Internal Revenue Code...

U.Know U.Should; MEFA's college savings programs work best when begun early.
Byline: Matthew Bruun David M. Roth has some well-earned advice for parents who hope to send their kids to college: Start saving now. Mr. Roth, of Fitchburg, is a proud alumnus of Clark University in Worcester and remains an active ambassador for the school. For...

Tuition elasticity of the demand for higher education among current students: a pricing model.
Establishing tuition rates at institutions of higher learning is always of fundamental strategic importance to college administrators who are suffering adverse financial effects from reduced allocations from external sources and increased educational and facility costs [2]. Innovative reactions to these environmental conditions are needed to avoid institutional decline [1]. Colleges...

The agony of American education: how per-student funding can revolutionize public schools.
IMAGINE A CITY with authentic public school choice--a place where the location of your home doesn't determine your child's school. The first place that comes to mind probably is not San Francisco. But that city boasts one of the most robust school choice systems in the nation. ...