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University of Illinois starts furlough plan
Posted Tuesday, January 5, at 11:56 AM
While Southeast Missouri State University is planning for future bad budgets, public universities in Illinois are already facing that reality.
The University of Illinois announced today that it will start a furlough plan to trim $82 million from the university's operating budget. According to the Associated Press, the state has not paid $436 million in appropriations to the university. The state also owes the University of Southern Illinois more than $100 million.
Check the education page for more about the university's furlough plan.
In Missouri, Southeast announced last month that it will cut $8 million from its budget over the next two years. Public universities throughout Missouri also made an agreement with Gov. Jay Nixon to keep state appropriations stable in exchange for a tuition freeze.
Southeast Missouri school elminates homework It's every student's dream but Bloomfield Middle School sees it as a way to help struggling students. The Dexter Daily Statesman reported Friday that the school is eliminating homework. Middle School Principal Dr. Kelly Renfroe announced the move in a Dec. 1 letter to parents. School officials said they hope teachers will now spend more time in the classroom doing hands-on activities...
Pell problems The Associated Press reported this evening that the Pell Grant program is facing the largest shortfall in the program's 36-year history. The program will cost $18 billion more than Congress and the White House anticipated over the next three years. The program has a budget of $18 billion...
Building schools A couple of local schools are pushing to meet the Jan. 26 deadline to file a bond issue for the April election. The Cape Girardeau School District formed a steering committee and has been studying its facilities and surveying teachers for about a year. It's a $40 million proposal that mainly targets seven district buildings...
Breaking down the community college agreement In this week's education newsletter I broke down more of the specifics regarding the partnership to establish a community college site in Cape Girardeau County. We launched the newsletter a few weeks ago and it comes out every Thursday. If you want to subscribe, go to here...
Senior Moments There was a time when I thought high school was as stressful as it gets. Then I went to college, started renting apartments and paying utilities. Then I got a job and moved to a new state. I wouldn't say life gets easier or harder but the challenges are different. In high school my parents and I sat at the kitchen table and stared blankly at the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Now I'm calling them almost every day about car loans, car titles, car insurance, etc...
Bus + Museum = Buseum Monday, Cape Girardeau Central High School students will get a dose of a part of history that gets little attention. While soldiers were fighting World War II on other continents, there were prisoner of war camps in the United States. High school librarian Julia Jorgensen said the closest camp to Cape Girardeau was in Weingarten, Mo., which is located between Farmington and Ste. ...
Grant-22 Monday night board members decided not to apply for a grant that could have contributed money for part of an event stadium at the high school. A grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency would fund a safe room to provide shelter for students in a tornado. The building, however, could also provide the structure for concession stands, locker rooms and bathrooms for an event complex...
Check out our new education page While school was out this summer, I've been busy. My editors and I have been working to develop an education page. We are using this part of our site to highlight some of the activities in area schools. Browse the features and take advantage of them as you progress through the school year...
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Alaina Busch began covering education for the Southeast Missourian in
February, shortly after wrapping up an internship with C-SPAN where she worked on coverage of the 2008 presidential election. She is a native of Holgate, a northwest Ohio town of just over 1,100 people. Alaina graduated from the Ohio State University in December of 2008 with a degree in journalism and international studies. Rural Missouri's rolling hills are a scenic change for Alaina, who is used to living in a flatter region. She still gets nervous while parking her car on an incline. As the newspaper's education reporter, Alaina loves the diversity of getting to write about learning at all levels, from Southeast Missouri State University to area elementary schools to
covering the legislative angle.
Hot topics University of Illinois starts furlough plan(  3 ~ 1:52 AM, Feb 7)
Southeast Missouri school elminates homework
Pell problems
Building schools
Breaking down the community college agreement
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