Illinois's F in college affordabilty
My two kids at NIU need those low-wage big-box jobs to help me pay for their education.
Tara Malone at the Daily Herald has a story on page 5 saying Illinois gets an F in college affordability but I can't find a link in their online edition.
She's quoting from this report over at the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education,
Higher education has become considerably less affordable in Illinois since the early 1990s [my emphasis], and this may limit the state’s access to an educated, competitive workforce. The state continues to fall behind in enrolling students in college by age 19—and this rate has declined by double digits over the past decade. This is due to proportionately fewer 9th graders graduating from high school in four years, and fewer of them going directly to college. If these downward trends are not addressed, they could undermine the state’s historically strong performance in higher education.
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They could always get jobs with the National Guard.
But I guess that is for other people's kids.
I push it... and ROTC...
Illinois and 43 other states got "F"s. The rest got Ds.
Where's the curve on that one?
Maybe some of the alderman can get an education with their payraise.
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