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Ward committee man opposes Biden's plan to end charter schooling
About 78 percent of parents support the launching of charter public schools in their neighborhood, according to a new study but presidential candidate Joe Biden has vowed to close them all if he is elected, according to a tweet on Twitter
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From Idaho Business Daily
Idaho 4th-graders score three points above the national average on reading
Fourth-graders in Idaho on average scored 223 on a standardized reading test administered last year, which is three points above the 2019 national average calculated by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
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From Idaho Business Daily
Idaho 4th-graders score two points above the national average on math
Fourth-graders in Idaho on average scored 242 on a standardized math test administered last year, which is two points above the 2019 national average calculated by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
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From Idaho Business Daily
Boise State sports programs took in $38.1 million in 2018
Boise State University grossed $38.1 million in 2018, making it the 98th-highest-grossing college athletics program in the United States that year, according to an Idaho Business Daily analysis of the latest federal data.
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From Idaho Business Daily
944 borrowers in Idaho filed for student loan forgiveness in 2nd quarter
Borrowers in Idaho who sought forgiveness of their student loans in the second quarter of 2019 numbered 944, according to a new state-by-state analysis by the U.S. Department of Education.
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From Illinois Business Daily
The price of education: Which Illinois schools charge the lowest in-state tuition?
Illinois residents pay the lowest in-state tuition at Triton College - Intl Union of Operating Engr Local 399 Trning Fac., John A Logan College and Rend Lake College, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
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Analysis: 6 in 10 black students failing out of Illinois’ 4-year universities
More than 10,000 of the 16,000 black students enrolled in one of Illinois’ eleven, state-subsidized four-year universities will flunk out of school.
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Analysis: DePaul University women’s head coaches’ pay ranks 40th in nation
Head coaches of DePaul University women’s teams earn an average of $224,721 annually – the 40th highest average salary in the nation – according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of federal education data.
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Illinois college football fields 3,544 players
Illinois ranked seventh most popular for college football among the 50 states, according to a Prairie State Wire analysis of college sports participation.
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Analysis: 2,973 college athletes play baseball in Illinois
Illinois is the fifth most-popular state for college baseball, federal data shows.
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From Higher Education Tribune
585,402 U.S. borrowers in default on student loans
University of Phoenix, Everest University and Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana University had the most students who defaulted on school loans they started repaying in 2014, according to the latest disclosure from the U.S. Department of Education.
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From Higher Education Tribune
Illinois’ top-spending two-year school spent $2.3 million per graduate in 2016
Three colleges in Chicago spent more per graduate of all Illinois two-year schools during the 2016 academic year, according to the latest data compiled from U.S. Department of Education and Illinois State Comptroller tracking the performance and spending at 48 Illinois community colleges.