The Pell Grant is just that, free college for poor students as it pays tuition, books, and occasionally a refund check ...if money is left over for that semester’s cost. I am a former Community College Instructor.
Obama’s free two year college plan is not free he said, as with all BS money he wants, there is a catch. There is work to be done for it he told media...I wait with baited breath to find out what the Community Organizer has in store for these young people....I know you can imagine many more community organizers working for the Democrats on taxpayer dollars.
I believe a lot of this smoke and mirror campaign is because Community College has not been a hotbed of activist instructors teaching the youth how to be a Marxist or fill a communist leftist agenda.
The majority of Instructors, and I say that with a ??, in my opinion have stuck to the curriculum and taught the subject matter. Our Liar In Chief would like to change that influence to resemble the corrupt Universities carrying water for the far left.
How the money will be spent is not my field, however I know students recently who have used a Pell Grant and it paid for the total cost to help them get going in a career, as their parents are single, one has ill parent, or many come from poor families.
Some of the programs are RN, EMT, Heating & A/C, Electrician, CJ-BLET, Cosmetology and various trade programs. There is the College Transfer Program for those who will go to University for a four year major degree.
The Pell Grant is granted in dollars based on the families last Income Tax form filed the former year.
So the Zero plan is devious, because this is already in place and has been used for many decades to educate those who need it but can’t afford it, even adults who must retrain or change careers.
Boy do I agree with the point, “has not been a hotbed of activist instructors teaching the youth how to be a Marxist or fill a communist leftist agenda”.
Once the feds pay the bill then they determine which education plans constitute a meaningful contribution to our society. Now we would have a situation similar to rationing healthcare under Obamacare.
Let me paraphrase Princeton bioethics professor Peter Singer from the New York Times when he gave Congressional intent about healthcare without equivocation. “Rationing health care (community education) means getting value for the billions spent by setting limits on which (educational paths) treatments should be paid for from the public purse….There’s no doubt that it’s tough – politically, emotionally, and ethically - to make a decision that means (defining meaningful contributions to society)that someone will die sooner than they would have if the decision had gone the other way….The task of health care (education) bureaucrats is then to get the best value for resources they have been allocated….If a teenager (must educated to fill a proscribed need for a social services assistant instead of a welder) can be expected to live another 70 years, (then those classes with approved curriculums needs to be offered by the college)saving that life gains 70 years, whereas a person of 85 can be expected to live another 5 years, then saving the 85-year-old will gain of only 5 life-years. That suggests saving one teenager is equivalent to saving 14 85-year-olds”.
Why We Must Ration Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all