Tennessee Governor Urges 2 Free Years of Community College and Technical School

[kpete]

Tennessee Governor Urges 2 Free Years of Community College and Technical School
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAFEB. 4, 2014

Gov. Bill Haslam, left, with legislators on Monday night in Nashville, proposed bolstering Tennessee’s work force with two years of free schooling.

Public colleges have sharply raised their prices since the 1990s in the face of declining state support, but a plan by Tennessee’s governor to make two years of community college and technical school free for all students represents a striking reversal of that trend.

Tennessee would be the only state in the country to charge no tuition or fees to incoming students under the proposal by Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, which policy analysts called a big step toward a better-educated work force.

“This is the best idea to boost participation in higher education in a generation,” said Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, a major association of public and private colleges.





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[tammywammy]

1. That's a great idea. n/t

[niyad]

2. I know this plan is really about helping out businesses, but still--for a republican to propose FREE

education?

[loyalsister]

3. “This is the best idea to boost participation in higher education in a generation”

I think that answers the poster who asked the there were any good republicans. The question is do we demand he adopt all liberal positions, or is it possible to consider him an ally we don't always agree with?

[tularetom]

4. It's a good idea but it might turn around and bite him in the ass

All those educated workers might demand to actually be paid what they're worth and that won't go over well with the gov's allies in big bidness.

[Turbineguy]

5. Free education

is counter-reaganomic.