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President's Community College Plan - May be realistic because it�s dirt cheap

sparkling water

Posted 10:56 am, 01/14/2015

This is one of a few areas where I agree w the president. We already provide considerable assistance to college kids through grants and low cost loans. In reality its just a two year extension if benefits already enjoyed by high school kids. Should be a boon to the CC system. This comes at a time when employers are turning away from wanting a four year degree and toward the more technically oriented two year degree.

kenc

Posted 10:52 am, 01/14/2015

We should save any money used to educate our youth and give congress a raise. We need money for wars, and pork also.

smokerking

Posted 10:49 am, 01/14/2015

I think that the public education system needs to be stripped and restructured long before any effort is put into community college programs. Anyone care to guess how we rank among other countries in education?

canesfan

Posted 10:37 am, 01/14/2015

Instead of finding ways to spend more of our money, we should be figuring out why colleges charge so much and work to reduce the cost.

Osmosis

Posted 10:09 am, 01/14/2015

This all sounds good but it's just another way for the liberals to gain more control of our system. They will create another mammoth bureaucracy that will have to be fed by tax money. If they would just give the money it would be fine but along with that money they dictate and regulate. They'll hire offices full of people and bureaucrats to oversee it. The control we have now comes from the states. They will dangle that government carrot in front of us until we take a bite. Look at our secondary schools. They are in the mess they're in due to government control from Washington and Raleigh. Do you think the 60 billion they quote is true? Look at everthing else they mandate

Mtnpirate

Posted 10:03 am, 01/14/2015

When you get something for nothing, that's usually what it's worth!

Eat At Moes

Posted 10:03 am, 01/14/2015

http://www.aacc.nche.edu/Ab...021114.pdf

Every $1 spent on community college has a $25.90 ROI for the economy.

So, I mean...you could say there's no point, but then there's facts

1goddess

Posted 9:58 am, 01/14/2015

they say it cost the "federal government" like it's a huge disconnection from whom the "federal government' really is...this is truly like the ACA...just another scam, another way to raise taxes...as you know, taxes will have to be raised to pay for this.



Eat At Moes

Posted 9:50 am, 01/14/2015

http://www.slate.com/articl...ingle.html

Right now, the White House estimates that its plan would cost the federal government $60 billion over 10 years. The states would be on the hook for another $20 billion over 10 years. To put that in context, the feds currently spend almost $68 billion annually on financial aid�a large chunk of which is delivered as tax breaks that often go to high-income families. States, meanwhile, award billions more in scholarships to students. Somewhere in those giant pools of money, it should be possible to find $8 billion a year that would be better spent making community colleges tuition-free.

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