Bill Text: IL HR0223 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urges prospective Illinois students to attend public and nonprofit colleges and universities and urges the Illinois General Assembly to use taxpayer funding to support high-quality student-centered higher education instead of subsidizing profits for private companies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-07-18 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0223 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HR0223-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The United States faces a student debt crisis
with Americans owing more than $1.7 trillion in student loans,
which is more than a 100 percent increase over the last decade;
and
WHEREAS, For-profit borrowers default at twice the rate of
public two-year borrowers; and
WHEREAS, For-profit colleges serve less than 8 percent of
Illinois students yet account for 1.7 times more in defaulted
loan amounts than all other Illinois public and private
institutions combined; and
WHEREAS, 74 of the 78 Illinois programs considered failing
or near-failing, based on graduate debt-to-earning ratios, are
at for-profit colleges; and
WHEREAS, Students of for-profit colleges often have lower
graduation rates, have lower post-graduation earning
potentials, and can face challenges in transferring credits to
other institutions; and
WHEREAS, 99 percent of students' fraud claims concern
for-profit colleges; and

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WHEREAS, For-profit college executives are duty bound to
act in the interest of ownership; and
WHEREAS, In fiscal year 2019, 3,000 Monetary Award Program
(MAP) grants were used at for-profit colleges in Illinois;
however, the same appropriation could have funded not only
these students' education at community college but an
additional 5,600 students as well; and
WHEREAS, The goal of MAP is to provide grant assistance to
eligible Illinois students demonstrating financial need to
help make college more affordable, and the average cost of
higher education at Illinois' for-profit colleges is nearly
twice as much compared to public universities for Illinois'
lowest-income students; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we urge prospective Illinois students to attend public and
nonprofit colleges and universities so that they can
experience manageable debts, greater career earnings, and
stronger returns on their investment in a higher education;
and be it further
RESOLVED, That we urge the General Assembly to use

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taxpayer funding to support high-quality student-centered
higher education instead of subsidize profits for private
companies.