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Steve Bostic issued the following press release on May 4, 2006:





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 Steve Bostic Expresses Disappointment with Career Education First Quarter 2006
                                     Results

SEA ISLAND, GA, May 4, 2006 -- Steve Bostic, the beneficial owner of
approximately 1% of the outstanding stock of Career Education Corporation
(NASDAQ: CECO), today made the following statement regarding Career Education
Corporation's first quarter 2006 results:

"I believe CEC's first quarter results urgently demonstrate that the time for
stockholders to act is now. Over the last few days, management has spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars of their stockholders' money mounting lavish
newspaper advertising campaigns attacking me and the way I ran my business six
years ago. Management continues to play its game of smoke and mirrors to
distract stockholders from the facts. The reality is that they have missed their
earnings and provided no outlook as to how they will solve the problems plaguing
our company. What happened to all of management's hype about momentum?
Enrollment at brick and mortar schools is down about 8% year over year. Online
growth has slowed to a trickle. New starts are down significantly. American
InterContinental University (AIU) is still on probation, and the other legal and
regulatory problems have not gone away. The money management is spending on
advertising to attack me would be better spent explaining to stockholders how
management proposes to turn the company around. I have been speaking to other
stockholders of the company in recent days, and they are also deeply concerned
about the direction management has taken. The multiple analyst downgrades and
13% drop in our company's stock price as of mid-afternoon today demonstrate that
these concerns are widespread. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
has found that there was a lack of "integrity of student academic records and
accuracy in recruiting and admission practices" at AIU under current management.
Stockholders should ask themselves if management's recent advertising campaign
that refused to address the fundamental issues is any better. The time for
change is now. I urge my fellow stockholders to vote the blue proxy card in
favor of me and my fellow nominees at the company's annual meeting on May 18."

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