Posted on 01/08/2015 4:39:51 PM PST by 9thLife
President Barack Obama on Friday will propose making two years of community college free for students. In a White House video posted Thursday evening, Obama said he wanted to offer “a little preview” of his plans for the Jan. 20 State of the Union address.
“What I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody who’s willing to work for it,” Obama said. “It’s something we can accomplish, and it’s something that will train our workforce so that we can compete with anybody in the world.”
The proposal would make two years of community college free for students with a C+ average who attend school at least half-time and who are making “steady progress” toward their degree.
Obama will visit Pellissippi Community College in Tennessee on Friday. Beginning this year, any state high school graduate is eligible for two years of free community college tuition under the Tennessee Promise. Federal funding would cover three-quarters of the average cost of community college, and Obama is asking states to pick up the rest of the tab — assuming Congress agrees to the plan in the first place. “I hope we’ve got the chance to make sure that Congress gets behind these kinds of efforts to make sure that even as we rebound and grow in 2015, that it benefits everybody and not just some,” the president said in the video.
To be eligible, community colleges would have to offer academic programs that fully transfer credits to local public four-year colleges and universities or training programs with high graduation rates that lead to in-demand degrees and certificates. Community colleges must also adopt “promising and evidence-based institutional reforms” to improve student outcomes.
If all 50 states participate, the proposal could benefit 9 million students each year and save students an average of $3,800 in tuition, the White House said. Nirvi Shah contributed to this report.
Bunk. That man is NOT going to tell local communities who can and who will not go free to our colleges.
Hey! Buddy! It's racist to exclude the black kids!
Right. Imagine if he tried! Why, he might think he could tell people who will and will not get medical care!
Democrats have ruined k-12 already. So they propose pre-k and collegiate classes to make up for the lack of education.
Government schools spend too much time lying to kids to teach them anything useful.
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And who is paying for this?
If he dangles a little money in front of their faces they’ll do whatever they’re told.
They willl learn about as much as the Dorkbama thing.
Why throw our money into the street?
Yay!! It FREE!!!!
On the back's of me an mine...who work and pay taxes!!! And went to Community College's and PAID our way!!!!!!
Not mentioned are the spiffy brown khaki uniforms and a truncheon.
OK, Let’s save a lot of time and money right now.
I say just give everyone a 2-year CC degree complete with 4.0 gpa.
And now what do we have, and how has anything changed?
Nobody. It's free, right?
Free, huh?....
Students? or Wall Street W0ns?
The same people who pay for free health care.
Pay for it yourselves. Good grief. The government has them for 13 years. With some preschool programs it is even longer. Let them pay for more themselves.
“What I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody who’s willing to work for it,”
What a vile little thief this man is.
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