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More than 17 traditionally Black colleges have been focused this year with bomb threats. Nine metro-area college students are among the 21 finalists announced Tuesday for the state Student of the Year awards. The New Orleans Business Alliance and United Way are partnering with New Orleans’ three traditionally Black universities to minimize the financial burden on college students and encourage them to stay in New Orleans after graduation. Dillard, Xavier and Southern targeted in latest Education News weeks, as have been other Black colleges in U.S. The Orleans Parish School Board formally reversed the 100-year-old ban on jazz music and jazz dancing in colleges, unanimously voting to overturn the rule that, though unenforced, remained unnoticed on the books for a century. AZEdNews invites you to take a glance at the entries in the on-line AZEdNews Yearbook created to honor and recognize Arizona’s graduating highschool seniors.

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