Laureate Education Inc. goes public, IPO slumping

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Laureate Education Inc. went public Wednesday hoping to raise $96.6 million, well below what it had hoped for earlier this week. Baltimore-based Laureate, the world’s largest for-profit network of colleges, offered 6.9 million shares at a price of $14 per share, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Earlier this week, the company had said in previous filings it wanted to issue 29 million shares of its Class A common stock at a price between $17 and $20 per share, raising at…