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NAXJA# 2091
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Obviously it's been too long since he went to college. Over my four years of undergraduate college, I spent between $3000 and $4000 just for books, and that was between 1993 and 1997. By now, book costs are likey over $4000 for the typical college student's Bacalaureate(sp?) program. Oh, and I guess that since this is a tax credit, students who do their service but don't end up filing tax returns don't get it?
How about we reel in the spiralling costs of primary/secondary education (dismantle the teacher's unions, cut and cap administrator pay and body count, institute real-world benefits and merit pay), and then use the mountains of surplus money to give students with good grades and/or community service a $30,000 scholarship to be used for education, with the option to spread it across four-5 years?
Higher education financial aid for U.S. citizens is a joke, and this is just another lousy punch line.
Took my daughter to the Art Institute Saturday for a look see. Got to the last show and tell and heard the tuition was $455 per credit hour. My Chem Eng degree had 190 hours. That would have been at least a $90,000 degree at that rate, and the entry level pay for her major is only about $32,000.
I think she sees the advantages of the local CC now.