In 2014, 22,472 high school students took college-level courses, which give them both college and high school credit, according to system figures. That’s an increase of more than 75 percent over the past five years — 12,729 students took those classes in 2010. Plus: an item on a Web site tracks launched by two UW-Madison centers that monitors water quality in the Yahara chain of lakes. LakeForecast.org uses data from dozens of sites in lakes Mendota, Monona, Wingra, Waubesa and Kegonsa to tell swimmers what kind of water quality they can expect.
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