Free community college expected to be cut from spending bill
3 years, 2 months ago

Free community college expected to be cut from spending bill

Associated Press  

President Joe Biden’s long-sought goal of free community college appears to be a victim of cost-cutting in his social spending plan, dealing a major blow to his vision for a historic expansion of educational opportunity to all Americans. “I promise you — I guarantee you — we’re going to get free community college in the next several years and across the board.” For Biden, it represents yet another setback to a plan he has been pushing for years. The proposal from House Democrats included a five-year, $45 billion plan to give Americans two years of free community college. Removing Biden’s community college plan would also deliver a blow to Democrats in Congress who made college affordability a focal point of the 2020 presidential primary.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ask lawmakers to make community college free for all high school graduates
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ask lawmakers to make community college free for all high school graduates

Associated Press  

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to urge state lawmakers to pass legislation that would provide free community college tuition for all high school graduates during her sixth State of the State speech on Wednesday. The Democratic governor now wants to expand the program by removing all age requirements for free community college, according to details of her …

Manchin worries free education will turn Americans into moochers. Students are left in the dust
2 years, 10 months ago

Manchin worries free education will turn Americans into moochers. Students are left in the dust

Raw Story  

With barely a whimper, free community college for all Americans bit the dust, at least for now. Part of an education reform plan, two-year colleges would, University of Chicago president William Rainey Harper argued in the 1890s, make Morrill Act public education funds available to more Americans. These “junior colleges” would be situated in public high schools and would relieve …

White House drops free community college from its spending bill
3 years, 2 months ago

White House drops free community college from its spending bill

NPR  

White House drops free community college from its spending bill Enlarge this image toggle caption Seth Wenig/AP Seth Wenig/AP The Biden administration's program to make community college tuition-free will not become a reality in this round of the president's spending priorities, leaving progressive groups disappointed. Both progressive and moderate Democrats confirmed to NPR that two free years of community college …

Biden’s soft infrastructure agenda may not boost growth
3 years, 2 months ago

Biden’s soft infrastructure agenda may not boost growth

Live Mint  

As the Democrats who control Washington reshape a multi-trillion-dollar package that would expand the social safety net and boost green energy, a key question hanging over their efforts is what impact it will have on the economy. A recent White House memo favorably cites a letter from 17 Nobel Prize-winning economists suggesting that both bills qualify as infrastructure “by making …

Biden plan seeks to expand education, from pre-K to college
3 years, 3 months ago

Biden plan seeks to expand education, from pre-K to college

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — As Democrats push ahead with President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan, they’re promising historic investments across the arc of an education — from early childhood to college and beyond — in what advocates describe as the most comprehensive package of its kind in decades. The education provisions in Biden’s “Build Back Better” proposal would serve as a …

Jill Biden Discusses Her Husband's Plan For Free Community College
3 years, 3 months ago

Jill Biden Discusses Her Husband's Plan For Free Community College

NPR  

Jill Biden Discusses Her Husband's Plan For Free Community College SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Jill Biden was on the road yesterday. Mrs. Biden is herself a community college professor, and she was there to talk about her husband's plan to make community college free. SIMON: So Dr. Biden was talking about a plan in Congress to make community college tuition free. …

Democrats’ divide: Free college for all or for some?
5 years, 1 month ago

Democrats’ divide: Free college for all or for some?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg’s latest ad on college affordability was a relatively quiet one: The presidential candidate is seen explaining his plan for free public college tuition for some to a small group of nodding middle-aged voters, his measured tone hardly shifting as he takes an indirect swipe at his Democratic rivals. “Universal public systems are designed to benefit EVERYBODY!” …

Who Should Get Free College? Buttigieg Ad Inflames Key Divide Among Democrats
5 years, 1 month ago

Who Should Get Free College? Buttigieg Ad Inflames Key Divide Among Democrats

NPR  

Who Should Get Free College? It doesn't name other candidates, but it's clear he's taking aim at Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who have pitched plans making free public college available to all. Buttigieg's plan would offer tuition-free college to most students at public four-year colleges, but it would taper off those benefits for people from …

Column: Buttigieg is wrong — free college should be free for all, including children of the rich
5 years, 1 month ago

Column: Buttigieg is wrong — free college should be free for all, including children of the rich

LA Times  

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has taken aim at one of the most progressive planks in the platforms of his rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — eliminating tuition charges at public universities. In an ad running in Iowa, the first primary battleground state, Buttigieg attacks their proposals for making college “free even for the kids of millionaires.” Buttigieg’s comment …

Biden plan: Free community college, expanded loan programs
5 years, 3 months ago

Biden plan: Free community college, expanded loan programs

Associated Press  

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants to make community and technical college free and federal college loan programs more generous as he shifts leftward but not as far as his 2020 rivals. The former vice president’s $750 billion higher education plan represents a major expansion of the federal government’s role in educating Americans beyond high school. The party’s education policy …

Washington state’s big bet on "free college"
5 years, 5 months ago

Washington state’s big bet on "free college"

Salon  

Washington state doesn’t have a problem finding educated people to work in its booming high-tech economy — it’s just most of those people come from out of state. Here are what I see as the most significant aspects of what has been described as Washington state’s “free college” plan. More money, fewer rules Washington state’s new college affordability initiative differs …

Democratic Presidential Contenders Propose Free College And Student Loan Forgiveness
5 years, 6 months ago

Democratic Presidential Contenders Propose Free College And Student Loan Forgiveness

NPR  

Democratic Presidential Contenders Propose Free College And Student Loan Forgiveness Enlarge this image toggle caption Wilfredo Lee/AP Wilfredo Lee/AP During the 2016 election, Bernie Sanders stood out as one of the first major presidential contenders to call for making college free. Ahead of tonight's debate, he proposed not only eliminating tuition at public colleges, but canceling Americans' outstanding student loan …

2020 candidates are talking about ‘free college.’ Here’s what they’re not telling you
5 years, 7 months ago

2020 candidates are talking about ‘free college.’ Here’s what they’re not telling you

LA Times  

It has become a cliche of this campaign: A White House hopeful pauses from a speech to invite beleaguered university graduates to shout out the size of the debt they carry — as if competing in an auction — and the numbers bellowed from the crowd spiral upward. Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind., told a group of college …

Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling student loan debt and offering free public college
5 years, 8 months ago

Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling student loan debt and offering free public college

LA Times  

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is unveiling a proposal to wipe out student debt for millions of borrowers, making her the only major 2020 presidential candidate to advance such an ambitious plan to relieve the growing burden of higher-education loans on Americans and the economy. To keep students from accumulating more debt in the future, Warren also proposes making two- …

Elizabeth Warren releases sweeping student debt cancellation and free college plan
5 years, 8 months ago

Elizabeth Warren releases sweeping student debt cancellation and free college plan

CNN  

CNN — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday proposed eliminating the student loan debts of tens of millions of Americans and making all public colleges tuition-free, staking out an ambitious stance on one of the central policy debates of the 2020 Democratic primary. “For two cents on the dollar, we could pay for universal child care, universal pre-K, universal college and …

If 'Free College' Sounds Too Good To Be True, That's Because It Often Is
6 years, 4 months ago

If 'Free College' Sounds Too Good To Be True, That's Because It Often Is

NPR  

If 'Free College' Sounds Too Good To Be True, That's Because It Often Is Enlarge this image LA Johnson/NPR LA Johnson/NPR To millions of parents and students, they're magical words: free college. Sometimes referred to as "free college" programs, most are relatively new, sparked by the relentless rise in college costs and by a desire among state leaders to improve …

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