Archive for September, 2008

College Enrollment (It’s the economy)

Posted by Tom on September 24th, 2008

Two years ago, there was some general concern about declining college enrollment. I posted about it. One one biggest reasons for the decline was the growing economy. I said then that there is an inverse relationship between economic strength and college enrollment.
The Trib has an article about how college enrollment is now increasing:
About 20.5 […]

Public Ed willing to give back to help balance budget

Posted by Tom on September 18th, 2008

The legislature will be called into special session to reduce the current year’s budget by about $200 million. (See senatesite.com, SLTrib)
If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, I suspect few in education would miss the $1 million appropriation for UPSTART (from the controversial SB2 second substitute, line 1108), which provides […]