First lady Jill Biden said at the Community College National Legislative Summit in Washington, DC, taking place between February 6-9 that she is “disappointed” that congressional Democrats could not pass the Build Back Better Act, along with a provision to allow eligible students two years of free community college education and, thus, fulfill a campaign promise.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to the free community college provision in the reconciliation bill by saying it seems based on “credentialism” and “the idea that the more education we get, the better we
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) argued that we have to pass both the bipartisan and reconciliation bills because if jobs are created through an infrastructure bill, but “we don’t allow
Joe Biden claimed offering four more years of public education to students will allow them to “compete in the 21st century.”
President Joe Biden and his administration have already outlined their next big spending bill, The American Families Plan. A basic outline of the second bill was revealed by the Washington Post on Tuesday citing “two people aware of internal discussions.”
Democrat wins in the Georgia Senate runoffs would give a Joe Biden administration a clear path to spend billions more in taxpayer dollars on government schools that have already failed low-income students, despite billions already spent on progressive initiatives like the Common Core Standards.
During his annual State of the City address on Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Los Angeles will commit to providing every graduate of the Los Angeles Unified School District with one free year of community college.
In his final State of the Union address Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama counted the recent reform of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the law’s new pre-school provision as hallmarks of his tenure as president, and he said he will continue to fight for universal pre-K and free community college.
In Iowa Tuesday, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton set out a “new vision” for education in America which includes support for the Common Core standards, a position that puts her at odds with the nation’s teachers’ unions and has her siding with big government establishment Democrats who support teacher evaluations based on student performance on Common Core-aligned tests.
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin argued that Hillary Clinton believes in the government “spending like drunken Marxists” on Tuesday. Levin said, “[Hillary] also supports free community college. I’m thinking to myself, free community college,
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Barack Obama will complete a rare presidential run though all 50 states when he delivers the commencement address at a South Dakota community college next month.
Vice President Joe Biden touted the Obama administration’s free community college program while arguing it is “no give-away” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Joe Biden and I’m here filling in for President Obama,
One of the most hotly contested proposals put forward by President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address is the president’s free-tuition plan for students attending two-year community colleges.
Ann Coulter, columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican,” argued that the federal government was “promoting a bubble” with higher education similar to the subprime mortgage bubble on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “The
Friday, while speaking at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, TN, President Barack Obama said free community college should be a right for everyone. Obama said, “Today I’m announcing an ambitious new plan to bring down the cost of community college in
In Tennessee today, the White House announced its desire to make two years of community college free for any American who wants it, with the cost being shared by federal and state governments, 75%/25% respectively. The concept is said to be
Transcript from The White House Blog: The President Proposes to Make Community College Free for Responsible Students for 2 Years Today, the President unveiled a new proposal: Make two years of community college free for responsible students across America. In
