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- Sponsored the Truth-In-Tuition limiting tuition increases charged to an undergraduate student who is an Illinois resident shall not exceed the amount that the student was charged at the time he or she first enrolled in the University
- As a graduate of Chicago State University, recruited students from the Southwest and South Suburbs
- Passed legislation establishing a program that allows Illinois residents to rehabilitate their defaulted student loans. The plan helps restore credit to more than 3,000 Illinois residents who may currently be unable to obtain credit, car loans and mortgages
- Sponsored House Joint Resolution 54 directing the state's higher education authorities to research and produce a study of college affordability and funding
- Sponsored a plan expanding a cost-savings program that helps prepare high school students for college
- Sponsored the Job Creation and Education Act to reimburse education-related expenses for students who obtained an associate or bachelor's degree
- Sponsored legislation amending the Board of Higher Education Act and the Higher Education Student Assistance Act.
- Provides that if a State university determines that a student needs remedial coursework, then the university must require that the student complete the remedial coursework before pursuing his or her course of study
- Appropriated funds for the State Scholar Program in which students receive a one-time grant of $1,000 to be applied to tuition and mandatory fees and paid directly to the institution of higher learning
- Sponsored legislation creating a P-20 council to improve student performance
- Sponsored legislation amending the Department of Veterans Affairs Act to provide grants from the Asthma and Research Fund to the Asthma Clinical Research Center program administered by the American Lung Association
- Supports a plan protecting consumers from unfair, unauthorized charges, banning companies from sending consumers products they do not want and then billing them
- Supports legislation expanding internet safety
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