Today’s news budget 5/25/2006

All links via the Journal Star, unless otherwise noted.

Illinois Central College is getting $400,000 less than it expected from the state. A change in the state aid formula favoring remedial education over prep for four-year-college is being blamed. My two cents: I can’t work up much sympathy for ICC. Remedial education is one of the traditional tasks assigned community colleges. So is vocational education, but I don’t think preparing people to be low-paid fry cooks was what was in mind at the time.