A continuation of the analysis of the current situation in Illinois by WirePoints: Fact 17 17. Student flight. Illinois lost a net of 16,500 university students in 2014 alone, the second most in the country according to the New York Times and the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Student
Here’s a table that shows school superintend and teacher salaries for McHenry County school districts, as well as class sizes. A Friend of McHenry County Blog did the heavy lifting in manipulating this data. You will note that Marengo-Union and … Continue reading
A couple of years ago, I heard a story on NPR’s “Fresh Air” about how a Brooklyn community college had increased passage rates significantly by instituting a program called “Success Coaches.” An advisor was assigned to follow individual students through … Continue reading
Thursday night, the McHenry County College Board will consider imposing a $10 per credit hour fee to force students to help pay for new and/or improved facilities. Here’s what the minutes of the Committee of the Whole meeting say about … Continue reading
Another McHenry County College student offers the following observations: “MCC has been having its fair share of problems and honestly it has been since the new president arrived. “We have spent 2,000,000 dollars of our emergency funds….. just to renovate … Continue reading
Multiply the 40,239 student figure for spring 2011 enrollment by 50, just assuming that high speed rail would have a life of fifty years. They divide that by six, just assuming that the average student takes six years to get … Continue reading
A press release from MCC’s student Pro-Life organization: The Students Supporting the Right to Life to Host the “Cemetery of the Innocents” on Wednesday Who: The Students Supporting the Right to Life at MCC What: The Cemetery of the Innocents: … Continue reading
Literally. Harvard Police report that one student set another’s hair on fire on Tuesday. Here’s how the Harvard Police Department put it: Child Endangerment On 11-16-10 at 1314 hrs a Harvard Youth (m/14 yoa) was arrested at Harvard High School, … Continue reading