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The Republican policy document urges officials to crack down on public institutions for being "zones of intellectual intolerance favoring the Left." "Ideological bias is deeply entrenched with the current university system," it claims, warning that trustees of state institutions have a responsibility to the public to ensure that public dollars not be used for "political indoctrination." Elsewhere, the platform reiterates Republican opposition to the Dream Act, which provides a way for undocumented students brought here as young children to go to college and work toward citizenship.
The Republican platform next turns to what in higher education is uppermost in Americans' minds—college costs and recent graduates' struggles to repay student loans while facing prospects of unemployment or underemployment. One answer from the Republicans: de-emphasize traditional higher education and, for the masses, create programs directly related to job opportunities. "New systems of learning are needed to compete with traditional four-year colleges: expanded community colleges and technical institutions, private training schools, online universities, life-long learning, and work-based learning in the private sector."
- See more at: GOP platform attacks higher education American Federation of Teachers
yes they are willing to make us all like them...uneducated fools......so the rich can get richer....
The Republican platform next turns to what in higher education is uppermost in Americans' minds—college costs and recent graduates' struggles to repay student loans while facing prospects of unemployment or underemployment. One answer from the Republicans: de-emphasize traditional higher education and, for the masses, create programs directly related to job opportunities. "New systems of learning are needed to compete with traditional four-year colleges: expanded community colleges and technical institutions, private training schools, online universities, life-long learning, and work-based learning in the private sector."
Because spending more on education means the quality is better. Right?Why is their never any concern for the astronomical increases in tuition and fees? It's just accepted? Why is that?
Since the govt has now nationalized student loans, the student is indebted to the govt for decades. Nice racket academia world and govt have together.
What you don't know is that when the student loan program started it was what you call nationalized. However even when it was privatized in the banks, it was still nationalized.
reagan turned it over to banks (privatized) when he was president. The way it was set up was the student borrowed from a private bank and if the student didn't pay the loan back, the government did. Plus the government paid high fees to the banks for processing the loans and maintaining them. It cost us something like 65 billion a year.
I believe it's much better to do it directly through the government so that it costs less. We're no longer paying that 65 billion a year to those banks. The government now gets the benefit of the money generated from those loans. reagan changed it so that it's a win/win for banks and they raked in billions off the government and from students.
Whenever anything is privatized it cost more money because that private institution has to make a profit.
I don't understand why so many people don't realize that privatizing anything makes it much more expensive because there has to be a profit in it for that business. That profit usually is such high levels that the private institution makes a boat load of money. In the cause of student loans, they made that money from us taxpayers and from students who didn't have the money.
They're making even more from the students now.
Actually no they aren't if you're talking about fees and interest and not the actual tuition. Tuition for college has been increasing at an alarming rate since the bush boy.
My husband had student loans. He took them out during the reagan years. At the time the interest was 11%.
Today the interest on a student loan ranges from 4.66% to 7.21%. So no, the government isn't raking in even more money from the students.
Interest Rates and Fees | Federal Student Aid
Frist off Trollingbones is a liar.The Republican policy document urges officials to crack down on public institutions for being "zones of intellectual intolerance favoring the Left." "Ideological bias is deeply entrenched with the current university system," it claims, warning that trustees of state institutions have a responsibility to the public to ensure that public dollars not be used for "political indoctrination." Elsewhere, the platform reiterates Republican opposition to the Dream Act, which provides a way for undocumented students brought here as young children to go to college and work toward citizenship.
The Republican platform next turns to what in higher education is uppermost in Americans' minds—college costs and recent graduates' struggles to repay student loans while facing prospects of unemployment or underemployment. One answer from the Republicans: de-emphasize traditional higher education and, for the masses, create programs directly related to job opportunities. "New systems of learning are needed to compete with traditional four-year colleges: expanded community colleges and technical institutions, private training schools, online universities, life-long learning, and work-based learning in the private sector."
- See more at: GOP platform attacks higher education American Federation of Teachers
yes they are willing to make us all like them...uneducated fools......so the rich can get richer....
Nowhere in this article did I see anything about cutting education funding and giving tax cuts to rich people. Did you feel the only way people would read your post was to flat out lie with an alarming headline?
What I did read was this.
The Republican platform next turns to what in higher education is uppermost in Americans' minds—college costs and recent graduates' struggles to repay student loans while facing prospects of unemployment or underemployment. One answer from the Republicans: de-emphasize traditional higher education and, for the masses, create programs directly related to job opportunities. "New systems of learning are needed to compete with traditional four-year colleges: expanded community colleges and technical institutions, private training schools, online universities, life-long learning, and work-based learning in the private sector."
Why would anybody have a problem with that? Sounds like to me they're offering a solution that challenges the status quo.
Because spending more on education means the quality is better. Right?
Since the govt has now nationalized student loans, the student is indebted to the govt for decades. Nice racket academia world and govt have together.
What you don't know is that when the student loan program started it was what you call nationalized. However even when it was privatized in the banks, it was still nationalized.
reagan turned it over to banks (privatized) when he was president. The way it was set up was the student borrowed from a private bank and if the student didn't pay the loan back, the government did. Plus the government paid high fees to the banks for processing the loans and maintaining them. It cost us something like 65 billion a year.
I believe it's much better to do it directly through the government so that it costs less. We're no longer paying that 65 billion a year to those banks. The government now gets the benefit of the money generated from those loans. reagan changed it so that it's a win/win for banks and they raked in billions off the government and from students.
Whenever anything is privatized it cost more money because that private institution has to make a profit.
I don't understand why so many people don't realize that privatizing anything makes it much more expensive because there has to be a profit in it for that business. That profit usually is such high levels that the private institution makes a boat load of money. In the cause of student loans, they made that money from us taxpayers and from students who didn't have the money.
They're making even more from the students now.
Actually no they aren't if you're talking about fees and interest and not the actual tuition. Tuition for college has been increasing at an alarming rate since the bush boy.
My husband had student loans. He took them out during the reagan years. At the time the interest was 11%.
Today the interest on a student loan ranges from 4.66% to 7.21%. So no, the government isn't raking in even more money from the students.
Interest Rates and Fees | Federal Student Aid
Yes, they are because the tuition and fees have increased 10 fold per semester hour.
You continue to be clueless. The government has forgiven or written off billions of dollars in loans. And with extended payments and capped payments they arent much profitable.Since the govt has now nationalized student loans, the student is indebted to the govt for decades. Nice racket academia world and govt have together.
What you don't know is that when the student loan program started it was what you call nationalized. However even when it was privatized in the banks, it was still nationalized.
reagan turned it over to banks (privatized) when he was president. The way it was set up was the student borrowed from a private bank and if the student didn't pay the loan back, the government did. Plus the government paid high fees to the banks for processing the loans and maintaining them. It cost us something like 65 billion a year.
I believe it's much better to do it directly through the government so that it costs less. We're no longer paying that 65 billion a year to those banks. The government now gets the benefit of the money generated from those loans. reagan changed it so that it's a win/win for banks and they raked in billions off the government and from students.
Whenever anything is privatized it cost more money because that private institution has to make a profit.
I don't understand why so many people don't realize that privatizing anything makes it much more expensive because there has to be a profit in it for that business. That profit usually is such high levels that the private institution makes a boat load of money. In the cause of student loans, they made that money from us taxpayers and from students who didn't have the money.
They're making even more from the students now.
Actually no they aren't if you're talking about fees and interest and not the actual tuition. Tuition for college has been increasing at an alarming rate since the bush boy.
My husband had student loans. He took them out during the reagan years. At the time the interest was 11%.
Today the interest on a student loan ranges from 4.66% to 7.21%. So no, the government isn't raking in even more money from the students.
Interest Rates and Fees | Federal Student Aid
Yes, they are because the tuition and fees have increased 10 fold per semester hour.
You post like you believe a loan is free money that doesn't have to be repaid. Also like you don't believe that students are being saddled with debt.
A loan has to be paid off. They only fees that are imposed on a federal student loan is the interest.
It's the banks that put all those fees on there to make more profit. When profit is taken out of the equation, most everything is cheaper.
Do you understand that the interest rates are much lower than what the banks had on those loans. Which means that as far as interest is concerned, the borrowers of federal student loan money are paying less for their loans that what the banks were charging them.
Since repayment of a loan isn't actual profit, it's just getting all of your money back, and the interest is lower, how is the government raking in even more money?
If you want to debate college tuition rates, blame republicans. They are the ones who are taking millions out of the public colleges and universities to give the money to filthy rich people in tax cuts and basketball stadiums. When you constantly take funding from public schools, it's the students and whoever is paying for the tuition who suffers. Not the government nor the banks.
the federal government should not be funding college anyway.lets me think here ...the lie....gop is giving tax cuts to the rich while cutting funds for higher education to the bone.....where in lies the lie?
