2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumJoe Biden Took Bernie Sanders’ Side On College Tuition
WASHINGTON Perhaps the key policy distinction between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination is the issue of free college tuition. And when Vice President Biden ended the speculation he might enter the race with a hard no in the White House Rose Garden Wednesday, he appeared to throw his support behind the Sanders side of the argument.
Sanders wants to raise billions from a tax on Wall Street and use it to make public colleges and universities tuition-free for anyone who can get in. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has rejected that idea as untenable, favoring instead what she calls debt-free college expanded work-study programs and federal grants that would allow students who cant afford public college to get more free money to help and more opportunities to earn the rest.
In his Rose Garden speech, Biden backed the Sanders side of the argument.
We need to commit. We are fighting for 14 years we need to commit to 16 years of free public education for all of our children, Biden said. We all know that 12 years of public education is not enough. As a nation, lets make the same commitment to a college education today that we made to a high school education 100 years ago.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/joe-biden-took-bernie-sanderss-side-on-college-tuition#.gkb88zNLz
BlueStateLib
(937 posts)Pre School
kindergarten
1-12
2 years of College
You really want to spend 14K a year tuition for 4 years to send some rich kid to University of California
where it takes +4.0 grade point average just to be excepted. And tuition is only 20% of the cost of going to college unless you are a commuter living at home. Housing costs would also rise accordingly.
Germany began guaranteeing in the 1970s that every graduate of a Gymnasium the country's most academically rigorous type of high school would be entitled to a place in a university paid for entirely by the state, The New York Times reported.
By the age of 12, only the top 25% of German grammer school academic achievers are allowed to go to a 6 year Gymnasium Schools (college preparatory) that qualify for free college.
Maven
(10,533 posts)I like Sanders' proposal but Biden has no credibility on this issue.