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UMass Economists: Bernie’s Plan For Free University Perfectly Viable
Far from being too idealistic, his plan is similar to one that works successfully in many European nations.
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Stanford Is Now Tuition-Free For All Students From Low Income Families
Stanford is leading the charge to make sure every deserving student has a chance.
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Detroit Teachers Fed Up With Gov. Snyder Hold Massive "Sickout" To Protest Lack Of Funding
Detroit’s public school teachers are staging mass “sickouts” – essentially striking by calling in sick – to protest what they call “deplorable conditions” in the financially-troubled city. Fed up teachers have recently taken to social media to document the shocking conditions of Detroit’s public schools: roaches, rats, mold, fungus, crumbling ceilings, dirty water flooding rooms,…
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Win: Colorado Is Using Excess Pot Sales Tax Revenue To Fund College Scholarships
Colorado’s pioneering legalization of recreational marijuana has been a runaway success by all measures, with the state raking in tens of millions in new tax revenue, saving millions on adjudication of unnecessary marijuana cases, and witnessing a significant decline in crime rates as well. All of the state’s citizens have benefitted from legalization as ever-expanding marijuana…
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Nightmare Is Over: Obama Gets Rid Of Bush's "No Child Left Behind" Act
For nearly a decade, partisan disagreements in Congress have stopped lawmakers from fixing President Bush’s failed education policy, “No Child Left Behind.” When Bush signed the policy into law in 2002, it was meant to close the gap between failing schools — often in impoverished neighborhoods — and high performing schools. The result was not a…
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Warren Backs Hillary's Plan To Levy "Exit Tax" On Companies Who Stash Profits Offshore
Each year, states lose approximately $40 billion in tax revenues from corporations and wealthy individuals who shelter money in foreign tax havens. Multinational corporations account for more than $26 billion of the lost tax revenue, and wealthy individuals account for the rest. Overall, the largest 500 U.S. companies would owe an estimated $620 billion in…
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Hypocrite Ben Carson Went To Yale For Free But Opposes Free College
Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson recently blasted Democrats’ plans to offer free college tuition, saying: “If they don’t really understand the financial situation of the country and somebody comes along and says, ‘free college for everybody,’ they’ll say, ‘oh, what a wonderful person,’…They have no idea that all you’re talking about is hastening the destruction of the…
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Koch Brothers' Plot To Privatize Education Has Already Stolen $3.7 Billion From Taxpayers
“An epidemic of fraud, waste, and mismanagement that would not be tolerated in public schools.”
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Joe Biden: It's A Travesty That America Doesn't Invest In Free College Tuition
When a student graduates from college, it should be one of the most exciting moments of their lives. Finally, after years of grueling work, long papers and sleepless nights, they are rewarded with a degree and new opportunities for the future. Unfortunately for the average American college student, this means they have also racked up tens…
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Republicans Just Killed A Vital College Loan Program For Low-Income Students
After fifty-seven years and thirty million low-income students helped, the Perkins Loan program is no more.