[E. Pluribus Unum]

K-14. The teachers unions are in.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...tuition-free plan would cost as much as $400 million...

That makes no sense whatsoever! But, it never has!

[BBell]

Fine, as long as it only funds tech/trade schools where people can actually learn a marketable trade and become good tax payers.

But they tell young people that learning a trade is for schmucks. Only degrees in soclial justice matter.

[shanover]

This idiot thinks the answer is free sh*t. Those who pay for it all is the shrinking taxpayer base. It's such a gimmick and the joisey sheeple will suck it up right from the trough. The NJEA is peeing themselves with absolute delight.

BTW,take a gander at any community college and easily come to the conclusion that half do not belong there.

[Cyclone59]

We have a free community college program in Missouri called A+, which pays the first two years of college at a community college or trade school. Student must have a 2.5 GPA, 95% attendance over all 4 years of HS, and have completed 40 hours of tutoring. Unfortunately, not too many students take advantage of it. On the plus side, many of the 4 year institutions will give students a $1,500 cut in tuition if they choose their school over going to the community college.

[SkyDancer]

And who exactly pays?

[monkeyshine]

Te way we teach has not evolved much. Technology provides for enormous improvements and new ways to reach kids who are behind as well as to challenge those who are ahead... and literally to offer a lifetime of learning. And yet it’s still “little house on the prairie” as far as the teachers and politicians go.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

This country needs less government indoctrination, not more. Every community college should be sold to the private sector or shut down. Want to go to school at one? Pay the market rate.

[ladyjane]

we must open the doors of opportunity, wide, for all residents."

All residents??? Is this guy crazy? The average IQ in urban areas is 85.

It would be cheaper just to give a college degree to all residents. Pass out those degrees with welfare payments.

[txnativegop]

Hey knucklehead, (not you Guava)

opportunity also requires ability

otherwise nothing happens because no one knows how to do anything.

[stockpirate]

Payoff to teacher union, taxpayers will pay the schools.

[jmaroneps37]

And lots of other free stuff the remaining suckers unable to leave New Jersey can be robbed of and made to pay for.

[Deplorable American1776]

Community College = Extended High School. Free? Nope, it has a cost like all ‘Free’ things...

[Coleus]

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...