Critics of
the proposed tuition policy haven't yet mounted a serious organizing effort against the issue.
Not exact matches
Governor Cuomo's
proposed Excelsior Scholarship, though flawed, has reaffirmed the value of CUNY and SUNY and made «free
tuition» for many a realistic
policy goal.
The plan, detailed in an 18 - page report prepared by the minority Democrats»
Policy Group, includes
proposed tax benefits for employers who offer student loan assistance, expansion of state
tuition assistance programs and implementation of different student readiness metrics used to determine whether students must take remedial courses.
Brodsky says if you look at Cuomo's
policies, he's fiscally conservative on issues like curbing state spending and capping property taxes, but socially liberal on items like raising the minimum age, defending women's reproductive rights, and offering free
tuition at public colleges, an idea first
proposed by 2016 Democratic presidential challenger Bernie Sanders.
(Cuomo at the beginning of this month
proposed a program aimed at providing free college
tuition to a majority of New York students, a progressive
policy item unveiled alongside former Democratic presidential candidate and current U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders)
These
policies included a
proposed federal budget that cut millions of dollars for HBCUs and college access programs that help send low - income and first - generation students to HBCUs and other institutions, and $ 3.9 billion from Pell Grants, which a majority of HBCU students rely on to pay for
tuition.
Free Cooper Union is the name of an organized effort to protest the 2011
proposed changes in the Cooper Union
tuition policy.