Biggest lure for Amazon to Virginia may be campus, not cash
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — As he assessed his state's winning effort to lure 25,000 Amazon jobs to northern Virginia, Gov. Ralph Northam said the key may not have been the hundreds of millions of dollars that were promised if the company delivered on its job-creation promises — indeed, many states offered much richer incentive packages. (Virginia Tech President Tim Sands speaks at the school's announcement of a 1 million square-foot technology focused campus in Alexandria, Va., t
Oklahoma high school students leveraging free-tuition programs
Oklahoma high school students are growing more savvy when it comes to earning college credit tuition-free, according to two reports presented Thursday to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. The fall 2018 preliminary enrollment report shows the number of students taking college credit courses while still in high school continues to grow. The concurrent enrollment head count at public institutions is 10,569, an increase of 147 students from fall 2017. The credit ho
