Sentences with phrase «free college tuition»

But, you have to admit, without considering details, free college tuition for everyone sounds good.

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It offers a different strategy to improve urban education with a promise of free college tuition to graduating high school seniors.

But his initiatives for free college tuition at state schools, extending the millionaire's tax and allowing ride - sharing services have wide support.

Good relative performance, financial literacy component and free college tuition credits.

But if you can swing it, moving to a state that would offer your child free college tuition is a great way to help them afford college even if you can't pay.

There is new criticism from both the left and the right for Cuomo's new free college tuition program for middle - class families.

New York State recently made headlines for being the first state to provide free college tuition for students.

«We don't support giving free college tuition to people who are here illegally,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

EJ McMahon: «Cuomo's free college tuition proposal raises a boatload of questions about cost, eligibility and justification — although it isn't too difficult to guess at winners and losers.»

There is new criticism from both the left and the right to Governor Andrew Cuomo's new free college tuition program for middle - class families.

Traditionally, students have had options of getting free college tuition by getting accepted to a military service academy or joining the military or National Guard.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to offer free college tuition at New York's SUNY and CUNY schools for families that make less than $ 125,000 has garnered a lot of attention, but not everyone is receptive to the idea.

Cuomo unveiled that proposal on Jan. 3 alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, who made free college tuition a signature issue in his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president.

Cuomo pointed to the victories he achieved in the budget, including free college tuition at state and city universities in New York and juvenile justice reform through raising the age of criminal responsibility.

Cuomo announced his plan alongside former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination Sen. Bernie Sanders (I - Vermont) who focused heavily on free college tuition on the campaign trail.

We suspect that Gov. Cuomo will get some form of free college tuition in the budget at a price tag of $ 163 million or so, and we suspect that Uber will be coming to upstate cities, although we wonder how this ever became an issue that is important to anyone.

Yesterday, he appeared in Queens with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to propose free college tuition for middle - income students at State University of New York and City University of New York Colleges.

Cuomo has been a strong supporter of charters and close ally of Moskowitz's at times, but has recently inched away from the charter cause in favor of more broadly popular education plans like free college tuition.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants free college tuition for students in families making less than $ 125,000 a year.

Cuomo proposed the plan after Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigned promising free college tuition in the 2016 presidential primary campaign.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo scored a major policy victory in this year's budget with the passage of his Excelsior Scholarship program, which most news accounts described simply as free college tuition for middle - class students.

NEW YORK (WBEN / AP)-- Hillary Clinton says the nation's first free college tuition plan approved by New York state lawmakers can be a model for other states and can eventually pave the way for nationwide reforms that were championed by Democrats during the 2016 presidential election.

The proof of this is all around us, from free college tuition for our middle class families and increased education funding for our schools, to major new infrastructure projects like the Kosciuszko Bridge and LaGuardia Airport.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about issues regarding free college tuition at SUNY / CUNY schools, a teenager who fell down an open manhole into an upstate sewer system, and the impact of winter road salt on area lakes and water resources.

«I think it's true if he spends all the money he claims he's going to spend by people giving people free college tuition, sure, but that's not free,» he said.

Mr. Cuomo has remained a polarizing figure, particularly among Democratic activists, even as he has increasingly shifted leftward in recent years, enacting a minimum - wage increase, paid family leave and free college tuition scholarships for middle - class families.

Tkaczyk is also criticized for supporting the Dream Act, which provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, with a flier saying she «voted to use your tax dollars to give illegal immigrants free college tuition.»

And, they don't want illegal immigrants getting free college tuition while middle - class families get nothing but student loans that will take them years to repay.»

New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

Prior to his appointment in 2008, Mr. Driscoll was the Mayor of Syracuse where he spearheaded multiple environmental, energy and sustainability initiatives and made the City of Syracuse the first city in the country to offer every student who graduates with a Regents diploma free college tuition.

Hawkins believes that campaigning on major progressive issues like the $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on hydraulic fracturing and free college tuition forced Cuomo to the left in search of larger vote margins to tout to boost his rumored presidential bid.

(The proposal wouldn't apply to those who get free college tuition through Say Yes Buffalo.)

New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed Cuomo's free college tuition provision in the budget, calling it a «fiasco.»

Assemblyman Kieran Lalor, a Hudson Valley Republican, said in a statement that the state should first reduce prison spending by 10 percent and then consider offering student loans to prisoners, not free college tuition.

«Governor Cuomo passed a $ 15 minimum wage, the strongest paid family leave program and gun control laws in the nation, banned fracking, raised the age of criminal responsibility, and enacted the first - ever free college tuition program for middle class families.

New York students from families making $ 125,000 or less will be eligible for free college tuition under Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Excelsior Scholarship Program.

The Erie County Legislature Majority Caucus — Chairman John Mills, Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo and Legislators Lynne Dixon, Kevin Hardwick, Ted Morton and Edward Rath — have submitted a resolution for the March 13, 2014 session, opposing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal that would utilize tax dollars to provide inmates free college tuition.

The group Reclaim New York said the state can not afford the governor's «free college tuition blank check.»

«What bothers me is that we're not acting, in my mind, in a long - term mode that would show what the effects are of what things we're doing today and how it's going to affect tomorrow, like the so - called free college tuition, it's going to cost more,» DeFrancisco said.

With the prospect of free college tuition attracting many young voters to the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, EdNext's Paul Peterson talks with Ludger Woessmann of the Ifo Institute in Munich about free higher education in Germany.

If you don't live in a state with free college tuition, and don't plan on / don't want to move, you can do your part in making college affordable for your children and for all children by exercising your right to vote, and by using that right to vote for state and federal officials who will work to bring about state - level and federal - level programs to make college affordable for all.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's free college tuition proposal raises a boatload of questions about cost, eligibility and justification — although it isn't too difficult to guess at winners and losers.

If you know for sure that you are going to be having children, you can also plan your life around that fact by moving to a state that has some kind of free college tuition program.

She also thanked New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo for funding the «Say Yes to Education» program, which provides free college tuition to some students who graduate from Syracuse schools.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

«We don't support giving free college tuition to people who are here illegally while middle - class New Yorkers scrimp and save, take out massive college loans and work two jobs in the hopes that they can afford to send their own kids to college,» said Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif.

From providing funding for childcare subsidies through the state's Childcare Facilitated Enrollment Project to making free college tuition a reality for CUNY and SUNY students, Jeff's leadership has enhanced the lives of thousands of our members in New York State.

NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a deal late Friday to pass the $ 153.1 billion state budget, which includes free college tuition for some students and a bill to end New York's practice of charging nonviolent 16 - and 17 - year olds as adults.