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E-mail Close Window E-mail This Page The following page was sent to Autism Community: Reach Out Before Violence A copy was sent to your e-mail address Send Another E-mail    Print     Share +  Digg Facebook Stumble It!del.icio.us Fark Twitter    Comments (2) Autism Community: Reach Out Before Violence DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ? Click to enlarge Irving Police Dept. Close Saiqa Akhter called 911 Monday and told the dispatcher her children, "?are not normal. They are Autistic? I don't want my kids to be like that." Akhter now sits in jail, charged with two counts of capital murder. Police say she killed her two young children by strangling them with a wire. Plano mother Carole Boatright said part of her can understand what Akhter was going through. She is the mother of ... [more..]

Homegrown students may have trouble getting into classes, but community colleges in California are having no problem finding room for foreign students who pay top dollar to come here - and provide millions of dollars for the schools. Take the Peralta Community College District in the East Bay, which recruits an estimated 800 to 1,000 students from Europe, Asia, Africa and Israel each year, according to a new Alameda County civil grand jury report. Foreign students pay ,332 apiece for 12 units per year - compared with 4 for students who come from in state. The foreign aid translated to more than million this year for Peralta. "It's not just Peralta - the jury found that everybody does it. It's a real moneymaker," said Jeff Stark, the Alameda County prosecutor who advised the investigation into the program's costs. Peralta even has its own foreign recruitment office - including a full-time director who hunts the globe for students and a staff of eight full-time and 14 part-time workers. The grand jury questioned whether for-profit students are, in effect, buying up class seats that could go to locals. But Peralta spokesman Jeff Heyman called the influx "good news on every front." "It generates revenue and makes ... [more..]