By: Diane Benjamin Last school year Unit 5 has over 1000 fewer students than they had in 2018: As of October 1 of 2021 enrollment was 12,499. I FOIA’d it but was told is was still changing daily. The above number for 2021 is for school year 2020-2021. Whatever the current number is, Unit 5 […]
By: Diane Benjamin All of the information below came from the Illinois State Board of Education website: https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Annual-Statistical-Report.aspx During the 1969-1970 school year 2,324,516 students were enrolled in Public Schools. During the 2018-2019 school year 1,984,519 students were enrolled in Public Schools. That’s a 14.63% decrease. Note the increase in bilingual education, see if you […]
By: Diane Benjamin Budgets for Heartland Community College only go back to 2012 on their website. Below are tuition increases starting in 2012: PDF page 11: https://www.heartland.edu/documents/bo/budgetfy12.pdf Note tuition was increased $16 per credit hour in 2012. 2013: PDF page 11: https://www.heartland.edu/documents/bo/budgetfy13.pdf Since 2012 didn’t mention a “Student Life Fee” and it’s only $1 per credit […]
By: Diane Benjamin Today the local rag has a story extolling the greatness of the Heartland Turbine. Maybe they got their info from Heartland, maybe they shouldn’t have. Their story says 23,000 Megawatts have been generated – in 5 years. That’s 4,600 MW a year. Now convert that to Kilowatt hours so their story and […]
