Over regulation! Over litigation! Over taxation!
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a rally held by the Orange County Republican party at Roger's Gardens on September 8, 2011 in Newport Beach, California.
Over regulation! Over litigation! Over taxation!
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a rally held by the Orange County Republican party at Roger's Gardens on September 8, 2011 in Newport Beach, California.
Will Rick Perry Unravel the Strange Consensus on Public Education?
Perry’s not my candidate, but I give him credit for looking at this.
Today, tuition is about $30,000-$40,000 per year. Starting salaries aren't that much higher than a single year's tuition
Either education is over-priced today, or companies are not paying enough... :0)
In a day of Internet Info, there is no reason a BA should cost even this much!
If he wants to encourage it, fine, but if the end result is another government program, subsidy, entitlement, or control, he can take the idea and shove it. Look forward to hearing more.
Community college here cost us +/- $1,000 a semester for tuition, fees, and books. Multiply that by four years, and you’ve got $8,000. There’s no reason a 4-year degree in most subjects couldn’t be done with the same economy.
Admittedly, the community college is county and state supported, as well as tuition-supported, but after all these years of paying school taxes, we got some of it back by finally using a government school!
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.Somethings hold true forever.Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
[If everyone went to college where would we get Plumbers, Carpenters, and Electricians?]
The only way to reduce the cost of college is to privatize the public colleges and make the administrators accountable for their actions. Not likely to happen. As long as the public colleges are run by the same kind of amoral scalawags that run the K-12 systems, their first and only priority will be accumulating power and money, and the hell with the kids.
wow, do any of you Perry bots know anything about economics and the law of supply and demand. Well at least they may be able to make changes at the hamburger joint. This one is out the with wanting more defense spending.
I continue to be mad at the on going demand for more money to support the old bricks and mortar 'business' model. It's always more government funding.
What if the standards for accreditation were changed so that primary weight was given to the percentage of graduates who were gainfully employed in the field of their major within one year of graduation? What if student loans once again became dischargable in bankruptcy, with the university being liable for the unpaid balance?
How would education in America change if the federal government published statistics for each university showing the median gross income of graduates one year and five years after graduation, broken down by major?
What if more American students got their degrees overseas, and their overseas degrees were accredited?
So long as the "Gubmint" is doling out taxdollars-for-votes, you will see overpaid/under-producing public employees.
BS degree for $10K? Yeah, right. The only way to do this is to make everything online and outsource the professorships to China or India. So pay American professors to record the lectures, but have the professors (who actually interact with students online) be from India, China, or the Phillipines.
It should be noted that the slap at the community colleges came from some professor complaining about Perry's plan and not from Perry.
For this reason alone, administrators and politicians and even regular folks will attempt to maintain the status quo.
People are motivated by fear.
It always makes me scratch my head when people make the assumption that a degree creates a “skilled worker”. Experience and initiative make a “skilled worker”. My Grandfather and plenty of others I knew never made it past 5th grade, but there was much they couldn’t do: plumbing, electrical, roofing, etc. Also, what about the farmers who had to know how to keep their equipment running, but never attended a trade school.
What the U.S. really needs is an emphasis on developing an Apprentice / Journeyman model to boost our manufacturing capabilities. Too many educated idiots running around already.
Good idea, but not one that is very well thought out.
We don’t have a shortage of BS degrees, we have a massive surplus. So much that a degree is not worth very much now. Having a $10K BS degree would only inflate the supply more, making the actual worth of such a degree even less.
Already we have people flipping burgers who have college degrees. Making the cost cheaper would just mean that we have more people who will never use that degree.
Most people shouldn’t go to college. It is a reflection of just how messed up we are that the view is you HAVE to get a degree.
This is a smart move by Gov Perry to say that a college degree should only cost $10,000 for books and tuition.
The parents will vote for him and the kids will vote for him.
And by reducing tuition it will take money away from dingbat leftist professors.
Remember it is ObamaCare that burdened parents until their kids reached age 26.
Who is the tech guru who recently said technical degrees are a wages of time? That you should just start working?