Posted on 09/18/2017 5:47:47 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
UPDATE: While Murphy initially said his tuition-free plan would cost as much as $400 million, a Murphy spokesman later clarified that the most it would cost would be $200 million.
TRENTON -- Democratic nominee for governor Phil Murphy on Monday formally announced a plan to offer tuition-free community college to all New Jerseyans.
"We simply do not have the workforce that we need," said Murphy, standing on the sidewalk of the Trenton Junior College & School of Industrial Arts and flanked by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. "We can and we must open the doors of opportunity, wide, for all residents."
Four states, including New York, already offer community college free to graduating high school students.
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Payoff to teacher union, taxpayers will pay the schools.
And lots of other free stuff the remaining suckers unable to leave New Jersey can be robbed of and made to pay for.
Community College = Extended High School. Free? Nope, it has a cost like all ‘Free’ things...
college for all....
I had to work and pay for college myself, one of the reasons why I tell the alumni office to pound salt when they ask me for money...
Not quite... let me fix that for you, given the current push in most school districts...
PreK-14th. The teachers unions are in.
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