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Bernie Sanders Unveils Substantive Plan To Support HBCUs
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Sanders proposes a multi-billion dollar plan to make private and public HBCUs tuition-free, an Executive Order to eradicate systemic racism impairing HBCUs, the cancelation of burdening public loan debt held by HBCUs, and targeted funding to address disparities in health care, education, and agriculture affecting Black people and other marginalized communities.
Additionally, Sanders will dedicate $5 billion to expand HBCU and MSI teaching programs and an additional $5 billion to recruit, train, and retain Black K-12 teachers. His plan also ensures teachers will receive a minimum $60,000 per year salary.
Sanders also set aside billions of dollars in Green New Deal research funds for HBCUs and MSIs to make sure occupied and targeted Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities who are most predisposed to the effects of climate change, are guaranteed a role in an expansive plan to transform our countrys energy system and create 20 million new jobs, according to his campaigns press release.
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As the Sanders campaign notes, Had student debt been canceled in 2016, the wealth gap between Black families under the age of 40 and their white counterparts would have shrunk from 12 to 1 where it is today, to 5 to 1.
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https://www.essence.com/education/bernie-sanders/
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Bernie Sanders Unveils Substantive Plan To Support HBCUs (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Nov 2019
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Recommended.
From the article:
All over this country, too many HBCUs have struggled financially from a lack of federal resources, theyve suffered from a drop in enrollment and from crushing institutional debt. And yet today, the need for HBCUs and the education they provide has never been greater, Sanders said during an event at Morehouse College, which drew 2,000 people.
It is no surprise that the racism endemic to the US results in racially motivated financial disparities directed at historically black colleges.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)2. From BET
Bernie Sanders Unveils College for All Plan To Support HBCUs
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Some highlights from the plan include the expansion of Pell Grants by enabling students from low-income families to use aid to cover room and board, books, and living expenses, and the removal of barriers for college students to access nutrition assistance benefits, according to his website.
At the event, he also unveiled a $5 billion plan to train more teachers at HBCUs, and a separate $5 billion program aimed at preparing more Black dentists and other healthcare professionals, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
We have to make sure that in African American communities there are the doctors, the nurses, the psychologists are there to provide the care that the people in those communities need, he said at the event, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
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The website also highlights how through the plan hell provide $1.3 billion to private, nonprofit HBCUs and MSIs per year to eliminate or significantly reduce tuition and fees. This funding would support some 200 schools which serve at least 35 percent low-income students.
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https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/11/28/bernie-sanders-unveils-college-for-all-plan-to-support-hbcus.html
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