Representative Rose let me know this morning that the decisions you see below we going to occur.
Quotes are from the News Gazette Story by Tom Kacich, found here.
"We made two policy decisions, I think," Rose said. "There's a belief among the (Higher Education) committee members of both parties that community colleges are where it's at. They are responding to market need; they are producing good, high-paying jobs with benefits at a very low cost to the students and at a premium to what the taxpayers put in. The first thing that everyone agreed was that we're not cutting community colleges."
"The next policy statement was that in this environment, ISAC's decision to spend $25 million on for-profits is inexcusable when you're not paying your universities on time, when you're not funding the (Illinois Veterans Grants), when you're not paying your K-12 districts."
"We're putting more money into MAP for not-for-profit schools, for the public universities, for the community colleges," Rose said. "We're putting more money into MAP for kids from every district in the state. The community colleges are at zero (cuts). And every community college that hears about this is going to call their legislator and tell them to vote for it."
Well done.
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