Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.
In-state tuition and book costs for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will continue to be among the highest for schools in the Big 10 conference, despite the UI Board of Trustees' vote on Thursday to extend an in-state tuition freeze for the fifth-straight year.
In a year when 95 percent of Astoria High School seniors graduated on time, 29 percent of those who attended Illinois community colleges had to enroll in remedial courses.
More than 86.6 percent of teachers stay at Midwest Central Middle School year to year, according to the 2018 three-year average in the latest Illinois schools report card.
There were 33 health care and social assistance businesses in Stark County ZIP Codes with between 100 and 249 employees in 2018, according to County Business Patterns (CBP) statistics provided by the United States Census Bureau.
Timbercreek Rehab and Health Care, a 202-bed skilled care center in Pekin, was cited by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) for violations of the Nursing Home Care Act in the fourth quarter of 2018.
About 42 percent of El Paso-Gridley Junior High School students passed annual English language arts assessments in 2018 and 58 percent of students failed.