Posted on 07/12/2019 11:15:34 AM PDT by bgill
In an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow Wednesday, Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders gave a shout out to the University of Texas for its recent announcement promising free tuition to University of Texas at Austin students whose annual household income is less than $65,000.
Sanders joined Maddow on her show to discuss the 2020 race as well as the spread of his progressive policy ideas among his fellow candidates and across the country...
The goal of this new plan by the UT Board of Regents is to make higher education more accessible for middle and low-income students. In-state undergraduate students and in-state transfer students can qualify for the free tuition and they wont be required to take out loans or pay back the funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
No thanks to Perry, Texas already allows illegals to be eligible for in-state tuition. Now, they could get there for free.
The less wealthy are now more equal than the rest of us.
‘Honey, quit your part time job and we’ll get free tuition for Jr. and it’ll be a break even for us if we had to pay for it...”
You're mostly correct. But, it takes a while to establish residency, or at least it did ten years ago. Maybe a year before the application, so closer to two before school entry.
I don't know the exact details, but I have a niece that did that (she was following her grad-school boy friend) and went to UT grad school. It took a while; she couldn't just move there and apply as a resident.
Of course, if you're an illegal, at many schools state residency is irrelevant.
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