{"id":24690,"date":"2019-10-18T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=24690"},"modified":"2019-10-18T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:02:46","slug":"higher-education-in-illinois-needs-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/higher-education-in-illinois-needs-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Education in Illinois urgently needs additional funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>After a successful K-12 program, higher education in Illinois should be the next focus of state education funding.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Higher Education in Illinois background<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the state of Illinois has increased funding in its K-12 program and it instantly gained positive results. Student performance in the K-12 program has significantly increased urging legislators to add another set of increase in its yearly budget.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/bostonsenate-pass-education-reform-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The state budget on K-12 level<\/a> per student was at $4,557 in 2007, but it drastically increased to $7,503 per student in 2017. For the upcoming budget designation on education, an expected $350 million is to be spent on the K-12 level. The funding is intended to reach districts away from adequate state funding for the past few years.<br \/>\nThe efforts to help build-up school districts in far-flung areas were a success. The number of poorly funded schools in 2017 was at 168, but in 2019 it has reduced to about 34 schools only.<br \/>\nWith state funding for the K-12 level increased, the budget intended for higher education seems to decline. With an average of $7,276 per student from 2007, it has dropped into almost half at $3,636 per student in 2017. A huge fall that ranks the state at 45th in higher education budget allotment.<\/p>\n<h2>Cost of higher education in Illinois increased by 62%<\/h2>\n<p>Also taken into consideration is the inflation in cost for attending a 4-year college course. The cost of higher education in Illinois has increased by 62% from $8,641 to $13,970. Because of this inflation, the state had to limit its beneficiaries for a full state subsidy for higher education in Illinois. Less budget on college scholarships resulted in a decline of student enrollment from 896,000 in 2009 down to 747,000 in 2017.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Advance Illinois<\/strong><\/em>, founded by different sectors like business, education and civic groups from Illinois. The group was founded to serve as a watchdog towards an efficient education system to help prepare children in life by achieving successful education paths from kindergarten to college.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Advance Illinois<\/strong><\/em> urges legislators to put some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/education\/illinois-college-aid-would-hit-record-under-pritzker-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more budget in higher education in Illinois<\/a> and not focus solely on the K-12 level. The state needs more college graduates to help in filling in the workforce needed towards a more developed state. The K-12 level graduates have skillsets that can accommodate certain job industries, but college graduates bring in the workforce for specialized jobs more needed for the advanced industry.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful K-12 program, higher education in Illinois should be the next focus of state education funding. Higher Education in Illinois background Recently, the state of Illinois has increased funding in its K-12 program and it instantly gained positive results. Student performance in the K-12 program has significantly increased urging legislators to add another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":24702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}