Sentences with phrase «high college tuition»

Straight from her Education page, Senator Feinstein openly recognizes that high college tuition «prevents too many borrowers from buying a home, opening a business, or starting a family.»

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The annual cost of incarceration for a single juvenile is over $ 100,000 — more than twice as high as tuition at the most expensive college in the country, according to the American Correctional Association and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

There are two main types: A prepaid tuition plan (the only kind higher education institutions can offer) and a savings fund, according to the College Savings Plan Network.

At the same time, there may be growing bills to pay such as private school tuition for high school and college.

With an abundance of choice, why should students consider paying tuition at a college or university that is unable to deliver on the core mission of higher education?

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80 per cent of new jobs in British Columbia will require some post-secondary education and under the B.C. Liberals, the province's apprenticeship program is a mess and tuition and debt for college and university students are at an all - time high.

Still, the income - tax break on any earnings used to pay legitimate college expenses, coupled with the ability to avoid borrowing costs for tuition later, could make even lower returns in a 529 plan equivalent to higher returns outside of one — and better than not saving at all.

For clients who anticipate higher education costs in the future, a financial advisor can estimate inflation - adjusted tuition and other costs at nearly 3,000 U.S. universities and colleges to help determine how much they should be investing today to pay for a college education in the future.

You can use the money for qualified higher - education expenses, including tuition at a college, university, trade school, or vocational school, as well as room and board, fees, books, supplies, equipment, computer hardware and software, and internet access and related services.

A 2015 report by Washington - based Economic Policy Institute found in some states annual childcare costs were higher than college tuition.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

I'd also like the package to include two to four years of college tuition for every high school player drafted, African - American or not.

I'm also intrigued by the discussions about whether there are better uses for college tuition, like starting your own business, since a bachelor's degree is the new high school diploma.

The cost of a year of high - quality daycare is comparable to a year's tuition at a public university, and to raise a child in America — not including college tuition — costs about $ 245,000.

Parents who work in low - wage jobs can face real difficulties affording quality child care — in 2013, the average cost of full - time care for an infant at a child care center was about $ 10,000 per year — higher than the average cost of in - state tuition at a public 4 - year college - and much higher in some locations.

-- To keep higher education affordable, the Legislature restores the Governor's devastating tuition assistance cuts ($ 49 million restoration) and community college cuts ($ 56 million restoration).

The free tuition offer has had little effect on where most graduating high school seniors are headed to college this fall, area guidance counselors say.

The final agreement not only burnishes Cuomo's liberal credentials by extending (though not expanding) the millionaire's tax, raising the age of criminal responsibility of New York and addressing the high cost of college tuition for members of the middle class, it also dramatically increases his (already considerable) budget powers, enabling him to single - handedly make spending cuts in the event of widely expected future federal funding reductions.

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

The University and College Union warned that tuition fees of nearly # 7,000 would end up becoming the norm because of the government's wider cuts to higher education funding, however.

Mr. Sanders seems to be echoing President Obama, who pointed out this summer that the $ 80 billion the country spends on incarcerating people could pay for universal pre-kindergarten education, a doubling of salaries for high school teachers or the elimination of public college tuition.

He'll be complaining to the rest of the country that New York has been unfairly singled out for budget cuts, even while he continues to maintain the impression that the state can afford to offer its high school graduates a tuition - free college education.

The measure, which is separate from federal legislation and would apply only to New York state, would allow undocumented students to be eligible for funds from the state's Tuition Assistance Program if they attended high school in New York state or received a general equivalency diploma and have applied to a college or university within the state.

Cuomo cited recent accomplishments such as a higher minimum wage, free college tuition and paid family leave as an alternative to the policies emerging on the national level.

The program provides college tuition to public high school graduates in Syracuse and was facing a fundraising shortfall until the announcement.

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, a Manhattan Democrat who chairs the Assembly's higher education committee, said she and her Democratic colleagues support free tuition at New York's public colleges.

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Maroun, who sped from business in Ithaca to make the vote, sided with the Democratic majority for a 5 - 4 vote that shifts $ 650,000 to Say Yes, a program that adds supports for city pupils and promises free college tuition for high school graduates.

Cuomo and the Legislature are negotiating a compromise that would also expand the state Tuition Assistance Program that helps not only public college students, but those at private higher education institutions as well.

Also negatively impacted, McMahon wrote, are the parents now shouldering significant private college tuition bills, or high out - of - state rates at public institutions outside New York.

Under the governor's budget proposal, two of the top items on his wish list — covering state college tuition for hundreds of thousands of low - and middle - income New Yorkers, and a package of tax cuts aimed at the middle class — would be made possible in part by a three - year extension of a higher tax on people who make more than $ 1 million a year, another policy favored by liberals.

The Education Trust - New York crunched numbers showing low - income students would still have to rely heavily on student loans to finance higher education costs beyond tuition at New York's public colleges and universities.

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

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

SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said, «The STEM Incentive Program provides an opportunity for hundreds of high school graduates from throughout New York to attend our colleges and universities tuition - free while also addressing a critical workforce need for our state.

Student debt is accumulating as schools struggle with having to impose higher tuition rates, which some argue threatens the quality of a college education.

Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson endorsed Cuomo's free college tuition plan, saying it's «good news for those struggling to afford higher education» and the Legislature should approve it.

State university leaders and higher education advocates are warning that New York's community colleges may be forced to raise tuition or make cuts under Cuomo's proposed 2019 budget.

The ad also underscores Sanders» push for a higher minimum wage and tuition - free college, as well as his support for «justice that works for all,» and a «middle - class that must be saved.»

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, for her part, pointed out that State Senator Toby Stavisky, a Queens Democrat and high - ranking member of the Higher Education Committee, had introduced a bill last year to provide free tuition for New York State residents to SUNY, CUNY and community colleges — a sign, she said, of the importance of having a unified Democratic Albany.

«The Senate has been a problem on many of these [progressive] items,» Cuomo said in the video address to the W.F.P., citing a desire for a higher minimum wage, a system of public campaign finance and college tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says state leaders could delay high - profile budget ideas such as free college tuition for middleclass students because of uncertainty in Washington.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

Higher education policy moved back into the news last week when the State University of New York's Chancellor announced an effort to keep increasing the cost of public college tuition.

Lawmakers begin their annual review of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget proposal in Albany today with a look at the higher education plan and, most likely, a focus on the proposal to phase out tuition costs for state and city public colleges.

The council also approved a $ 500,000 increase to the Say Yes to Education program which provides college tuition to public high school graduates in the city.

Guillermo Linares — a former assemblyman and city councilman — will head the state Higher Education Services Corp., which reviews and distributes $ 1 billion in tuition assistance and financial aid to 370,000 college students.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said high levels of student loan debt motivated his proposal for free tuition at any public university or community college in New York state for students from families earning less than $ 125,000 a year.

For public higher education, he supports free tuition at CUNY, SUNY, and community colleges.