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Budget crisis prompts possible layoffs at Illinois colleges Posted: 26 Feb 2016 04:14 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' ongoing state budget crisis has led Chicago State University to tell its 900 employees that they could be laid off and Western Illinois University to announce $20 million in budget cuts over the next two years.

Trapped in the Community College Remedial Maze Posted: 26 Feb 2016 11:07 AM PST A majority of students with A and B grade point averages in high school still require developmental education at the community-college level, raising new questions about the skill level of incoming college students and the ways institutions measure their abilities. This is especially worrisome for students of color given that half of Hispanic college students and nearly a third of black college students start their higher-education paths at community colleges.

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