Posted on 12/08/2019 2:07:30 PM PST by karpov
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Tuesday proposed investing $100 billion in historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions, a broad proposal in a Democratic field that has offered varying plans to prop up this longstanding yet struggling arm of the educational system.
Many H.B.C.U.s, as historically black colleges and universities are commonly known, have faced widespread financial woes recently, with some schools losing accreditation and facing plummeting enrollment.
Mr. Booker’s proposal comes at a precarious time for his presidential campaign: Despite crossing the 200,000 individual-donor threshold last month, he is still short four qualifying polls for the December debate and is in real danger of being left off the stage.
While many candidates, including Senators Kamala Harris of California, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, of South Bend, Ind., have already rolled out proposals to invest billions into H.B.C.U.s, an anchor of Mr. Booker’s proposal is dedicating at least $40 billion to those institutions for climate change research.
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Mr. Booker’s plan also calls for an additional $30 billion in grants to expand and improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics — known as STEM education — at H.B.C.U.s and minority-serving institutions, and another $30 billion in grants to upgrade facilities and infrastructure at the schools.
“H.B.C.U.s make our country stronger and more reflective of the diversity that makes us so great,” Mr. Booker said in a statement announcing the proposal.
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Are black colleges disadvantaged too?
A Democrat political strategist’s entire philosophy is: “Come up with new ways to spend money!”
That’s racist!
I am amazed after all his years of public service he has that kind of money to invest. It is his money...right?
Even that amount COULDN’T REPLACE ONE FATHER MISSING SINCE A KID’S BIRTH.
But don’t tell anyone
Even though EVERY time I used to watch Lock UP and a prisoner was singing a song they wrote..whether it was country or rock or folk or even rap, maybe especially rap, it was ALWAYS about their father missing.
IT shocked me at the time though I don’t know why.
But it’s a secret so don’t tell anyone
How many billions and billions of our tax dollars can and should we keep spending for racist purposes? And incidentally these schools have been receiving tons of money both public and private for many years already
Democrats NEVER spend their own money.
But wait Cory, I thought “diversity” was the trend nowadays?
Racism? You bet
HBCU’s should go the way of the Negro Baseball League. If an HBCU can’t hang as a regular college or University, then it might need to either fold or get absorbed into another university system.
I don't think that any of the current selection of critters will be involved.
Cory Booker - son of a privilege, suburban parents; but he’s black. Wants federal money for college to be based on skin color, not on need or on merit.
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Tuesday proposed investing $100 billion in historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions...
Redistribution isn't investment. The real Spartacus would have chopped him up in the arena, or pretty much anywhere.
Democrat platform: “Free, free, free, racist, free!”
"I won't pay an extra dime for swimming pools where I can't swim!"
So basically, every HBCU gets a billion dollars.
$100 billion?
Pfffttt! What a piker!
Do I hear $1 TRILLION? going once, going twice...SOLD! Sold to the lying Indian Liawatha for $ ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!
The ones near me have always been financial basket cases. So they “fix” the problem by pumping in millions of more dollars. Everything is called A OK until 3 to 4 years later when they end up in the same financial straights or worse. So the bailouts gets repeated almost to infinity.
These schools once had a purpose when post secondary education was segregated and there were less colleges but that’s been gone for a while. I say good job at their original task but now let’s move on to the future.
I know a men who graduated from one ( SC State ) back in the 1960s. His goal working all his life was so that his kids would never have to go there. They all went to mainstream schools like Penn State.
We are way past peak Democrat demagoguery and pandering.
Piss off the other 87%? Nah, just buy them off proportionally ... offer them $800 billion.
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