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Obama to propose two free years of community college for students
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/barack-obama-free-community-college-114094.html#ixzz3OHbH0lbM ^

Posted on 01/08/2015 5:19:50 PM PST by bryan999

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boredofeducation; college; communitycollege; freecollege; indoctrination; nofreelunch; obama; stateeducation; wortheverypenny
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To: bryan999

The pony comes later, I guess.


41 posted on 01/08/2015 6:17:54 PM PST by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: bryan999

He said he wants to make the first 2 years of community college free...Community colleges only offer a 2 year degree.

Just another way to devalue a 4-year degree and further disenfranchise recent college grads for whom there are no jobs.


42 posted on 01/08/2015 6:18:10 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (Make 'em squeal!)
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To: bryan999

When education is really “free”, who’s going to do the teaching?


43 posted on 01/08/2015 6:18:58 PM PST by adorno (a)
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To: bryan999

So then a community college degree will be meaningless. It will have the value of a high school diploma for hiring purposes.


44 posted on 01/08/2015 6:19:45 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

bump


45 posted on 01/08/2015 6:19:46 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Enlightened1

2 years of college?!
Only 2?!
Make it 4...no wait, 8, no 20 years of free college!
I also want a free house, free car (Lexus is acceptable).
And Kobe beef every day.
And a living wage....a minimum wage of oh, $100 per hour would be a good start.
And I want...and....and also.....
I am the Free Sh*t Army!
EVERYTHING should free!


46 posted on 01/08/2015 6:21:14 PM PST by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: bryan999

He’s already got control of K through 12 with Common Core. This is how he will take over community colleges, too. Community colleges, you know...the ones in your neighborhood?


47 posted on 01/08/2015 6:21:42 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: GeronL

ive already worked out the Logo//\\

http://i.imgur.com/JjC4LfN.jpg

the next step is selling it for fifty times what its worth...and cashing the check...


48 posted on 01/08/2015 6:22:42 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: bryan999

Wait a minute, isn’t community college 2 years in total?

This is pie in the sky if I’ve ever heard of it!


49 posted on 01/08/2015 6:23:14 PM PST by jocon307
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To: bryan999

I never went to a community college, do I get to go free?


50 posted on 01/08/2015 6:23:36 PM PST by razorback-bert (Due to the high price of ammo, no warning shot will be fired.)
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To: bryan999

There is a little problem of federalism involved here. Last time I checked, the federal government is not in the community college business.


51 posted on 01/08/2015 6:24:46 PM PST by yetidog
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To: bryan999

And the unemployment rate goes down.


52 posted on 01/08/2015 6:25:43 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: adorno
When education is really “free”, who’s going to do the teaching?

Spanish-speaking immigrants.

With tattoos on their faces.

53 posted on 01/08/2015 6:26:54 PM PST by ClearCase_guy ("Hey, I don't appreciate your lack of sarcasm.")
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To: MeshugeMikey

nice


54 posted on 01/08/2015 6:28:54 PM PST by GeronL
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To: jocon307

How about a free online community college??


55 posted on 01/08/2015 6:29:26 PM PST by GeronL
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To: bryan999

Largey symbolic.
Anybody with low income or on any public welfare program or with a nummber of other ‘needs’ can just put their X or paw print on a simple “Board of Governors’ Fee Waiver Program” form and, as the title implies, get a free ride. At some schools the majority of students get this.
Beyond that, there are many scholarships, grants, and work study opportunities — plus of course the “soon-to-have-repayments-forgiven-by-Obama” student loan program for much more funding assistance. And a whole office full of expert staffers all paid by the taxpayers to give away all these goodies.
(Not to mention that community college fees are almost always kept very low to begin with, so that even the students from the most wealthy families only pay a small fraction of the costs of their courses, with the taxpayers picking up the larger part anyway.)
Conclusion: a swell-sounding headline-grabber (otherwise known as a ‘political stunt’).
NOW if the high schools would turn out kids who could actually READ (above the 7th grade level, as today’s news cycle reveals is the norm nowadays for HS ‘graduates’)...
that would help students succeed in the community colleges a WHOLE LOT MORE than any newfangled “fee assistance” program layered on top of all the rest of the “fee assistance or waiver” programs.
Reform High School (at the local level, none of this is any of the Federales’ proper concern anyway).
IMHO.


56 posted on 01/08/2015 6:32:24 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: bryan999

Let’s see...to go half-tiime to community college in my county costs $918 a semester. It’s a high wage county, so even a burger flipper job will pay $10. So if you’re even willing to work an extra 10 hours a week at almost anything, you can more than cover that cost. Sure, it’s not easy, but what’s wrong with working hard for what you want?

But you probably wouldn’t have to pay that much if you were working a low-wage job. The community college offers financial aid. If you can’t figure out a way to pay for a community college, you’re too lazy to go to college. Sorry to be blunt.


57 posted on 01/08/2015 6:38:00 PM PST by Our man in washington
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To: GeronL

I was thinking it might be entertaining to do One version of the website...all in Cursive!!


58 posted on 01/08/2015 6:39:00 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: bryan999

Doing what he can to fundamentally change America...meaning DESTROY.


59 posted on 01/08/2015 6:39:02 PM PST by JamesA (You don't have to be big to stand tall)
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To: MeshugeMikey

lolz


60 posted on 01/08/2015 6:48:27 PM PST by GeronL
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