[oh8eleven]

... because you need college to be successful ...

Free! Free! Free is good (unless you're a NY taxpayer)! And no, you DO NOT need college to be successful.

[Glad2bnuts]

Why not free groceries, housing, medical, dental, college, cars, life insurance, retirement, why not just make everyone not making $125K a year a child of the government?

[ctdonath2]

So what’s the catch if you don’t graduate?

As a part-time prof I saw a lot of students start but not finish (some spectacularly so). AFAIK they had to pay back the tuition, which I assume most were incapable of.

[blueunicorn6]

If you get something for “free”, it’s because someone else is paying for it.

[zzwhale]

hopefully cuomo will be tweeting from PRISON in the near future...

[Gene Eric]

While still withholding funds to K-12.

[grania]

The unintended consequence will be that thugs will have a place to hang out and disrupt normal activities until they're kicked out. No decent child will be safe on campus, nor will they learn anything in class.

The choices are going to be the small number of private schools that still have standards if it's affordable, online college, or developing a job skill while still in HS.

[lysie]

Words fail because I was raised a lady. However, the words that are in my mind for his actions would make my family cringe.

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: Cuomo announces his candidacy for the 2020 Democrat Nomination

[Oldeconomybuyer]

... because you need college to be successful....

What an arrogant, elite, POS.

[circlecity]

“College is a mandatory step if you really want to be a success,”

Actually a liberal arts degree right now isn't as marketable as learning how to weld in trade school.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Otherwise known as K-16, or launder more money through the teachers unions.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“College is a mandatory step if you really want to be a success...”

Tell that to Bill Gaters, Peter Thiel, Henry Ford, Richard Branson, John D. Rockefeller, etc.

[wardamneagle]

So do you need a family to apply?

[VanShuyten]

Cuomo forgot to mention that although there will be free tuition, admissions will be cut 95%, and only the children of the connected will be admitted.

[The-Paperboy]

Skipping over the government run money laundering program known as student loans to pay the tax exempt hedge funds known as colleges directly from the tax payers...

Kind of makes the degree that I worked my A55 off for look like poo poo paper...

[Vaduz]

Cuomo = IYI

[1Old Pro]

Someone needs to ask him how he is getting the professors to work for free and the university to not charge tuition.

Sheesh, Cumo is veering Left of Bernie Sanders - New York is going broke and he tells reporters “the general budget” will pay for this -HUH???