Mr. Sanders, who is the chairman of the Finance Committee, said that he plans to add more free college into Mr. Biden’s infrastructure package.
The issue is an important one for Mr. Sanders. In addition to allowing more low-income people to attend college, rising tuition has contributed to the $1.5 trillion in student debt in the nation.
“Higher education in America should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few,” Mr. Sanders said earlier this month when reintroducing his College For All Act, which would eliminate tuition at two- and four-year colleges. “If we are to succeed in a highly competitive global economy and have the best-educated workforce in the world, public colleges and universities must become tuition-free for working families and we must substantially reduce student debt,” he said at the time.
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ESSEX, N.Y., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ It s well known that low-income urban students who want to attend college face significant hurdles. But rural students go to college and remain there at even lower rates than their urban counterparts.
A new initiative, the North Country Brilliant Pathways Program, aims to address this underrecognized gap for students at 20 elementary, middle and high schools in rural Vermont and northeastern New York by providing them with a multi-faceted, comprehensive college readiness program.
Former New York governor George Pataki talks at press conference about importance of education of rural students through the North Country Brilliant Pathways program.
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Program addresses widening college gap between rural, urban students
Vermont Business Magazine It’s well known that low-income students in urban schools face significant challenges in attending college. But rural students go to college and remain there at even lower rates than their urban counterparts.
A new initiative, the North Country Brilliant Pathways Program, aims to address this under-recognized gap for students at 20 elementary, middle and high schools in rural Vermont and northeastern New York by providing them with a multi-faceted, comprehensive college readiness program.
The program, with an estimated total value of $1.5 million, is free of cost, but each school needs to apply to be included. The application and program details can be found on the CFES website brilliantpathways.org.
Mr. Biden’s campaign promise for tuition-free public colleges and universities was included in a joint policy proposal the Biden campaign worked out with Mr. Sanders, who also ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. The joint proposal aimed to convince Sanders voters to back Mr. Biden.
Mr. Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Washington Democrat and chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, have now reintroduced the College for All Act that would make all community colleges tuition-free and eliminate tuition at public four-year colleges and universities for students whose families make $125,000 a year or less.
“In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, a higher education should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few,” said Mr. Sanders, Vermont independent. “If we are going to have the kind of standard of living that the American people deserve, we need to have the best-educated workforce in the world. It is absolutely unacceptable t