Pritzker calls for setting new higher education attainment goals
Executive order creates new working group to recommend plans for increasing postsecondary attainment.
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Study: Education still pays, but barriers to upward mobility persist in Illinois
Study finds people who are born poor continue to earn less than classmates from wealthier families.
Senate Democrats champion program to streamline Illinois college applications
A bill in play in the Illinois Senate aims to streamline the college application processes in the state.
Lawsuit threatens Illinois minority teachers scholarship
A conservative legal group challenges the constitutionality of Illinois’ minority teacher scholarship program.
House passes bill to reimburse teachers for college tuition, fees
The Illinois House passed a bill Wednesday that would reimburse public school teachers for tuition and mandatory fees paid to ...
Bright picture of college savings programs painted for Senate committee
State Sen. Dan McConchie can relate to how the two state managed college savings programs can help Illinois families.
Lawmakers asked to give ‘full faith and credit’ to College Illinois savings plan
The director of a state-run college savings program urged Illinois lawmakers to back the program with the “full faith and ...
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