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The following is a copy of an e-mail sent from Ed Sims of McKenna, Long &
Aldridge LLP to Mr. Bostic, which Mr. Bostic circulated to certain stockholders
of Career Education Corporation on May 16, 2006:



From: Sims, Ed [mailto:esims@mckennalong.com]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 9:54 PM
To: Steve Bostic
Subject: FW: CECO Directors

Steve,

Attached is the email I sent you last month.

The review of my files reminded me that we had also submitted to Janice Block
the name of Dr. Debra Leonard, MD, Phd. of the Cornell-Weil Medical Center, as
another director of CECO. As with the other two director recommendations, she
never responded to me, and as far as I know, to Dr. Leonard with regard to the
recommendation.

Ed

Edgar H. Sims, Jr.
McKenna Long & Aldridge
esims@mckennalong.com
(404)527-8550 Atlanta
(202)496-7191 Washington

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:            Sims, Ed
> Sent:            Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:07 PM
> To:        R. Steven Bostic (steve@liveoaksdev.net)
> Subject:         CECO Directors
>
> Steve,
>
>This will confirm our discussion earlier today in which I indicated to you that
>I remembered at least two conversations with Janice Block, General Counsel of
>CECO, regarding suggested directors for CECO. Pursuant to this, I contacted Mr.
>R. William Ide, III and Dr. H. Talbot D'Alemberte, former President of Florida
>State University and former Dean of the Florida State University School of Law,
>reviewed the situation with them and asked each if they would serve as a
>director of CECO. With regard to Dr. D'Alemberte, who is of counsel to the law
>firm of Hunton & Williams, I contacted him in February, 2005 and after several
>conversations, received word from him in March, 2005 that his service on the
>CECO board had been approved by his firm, subject to certain conditions.
>
>On at least two occasions I was a part of commuinicating these two names to
>Janice Block. She never responded to me, and as far as I know, to either Mr.
>Ide or Dr. D'Alemberte with regard to the recommendations by us.

> Ed
>
> Edgar H. Sims, Jr.



> McKenna Long & Aldridge
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