There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
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The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
I think higher education is over-regulated.
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.
I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.
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