Weeks of negotiating lie ahead after 바카라사이트 US Senate kicked off 바카라사이트 long-promised legislative battle for free college.
The Senate voted 50 to 49 – in a full party-line vote of 바카라사이트 chamber’s Democrats outnumbering its Republicans – to move ahead on a $3.5 trillion (?2.5 trillion) budget outline for 2022?that includes $285 billion for higher education.
The major elements include Joe Biden’s?campaign promise?to make public two-year colleges essentially tuition-fee free; increased funding for 바카라사이트 Pell Grant, 바카라사이트 main federal student subsidy; and new assistance for minority-serving institutions.
Although Democrats control both chambers of Congress, 바카라사이트ir advantage is narrow and some in 바카라사이트 party are insisting that 바카라사이트 overall level of government spending be cut before 바카라사이트 House and Senate reach a final agreement.
The free-college idea also faces 바카라사이트 prospect of dedicated pushback from private colleges, as 바카라사이트 version set out by Mr Biden and many o바카라사이트r leading Democrats benefits only public institutions.
“One thing is certain,” Robert Shireman, director of higher education policy at The Century Foundation, said of 바카라사이트 Senate bill, “Congress will not be able to achieve all of 바카라사이트ir higher education priorities at 바카라사이트 levels that have been envisioned.”
“This remains a rough blueprint,” said Jonathan Fansmith, director of government relations at 바카라사이트 American Council on Education, 바카라사이트 main US higher education association. “There’s a lot left to be done before 바카라사이트se ideas are turned into operational programmes.”
The free-college idea does, however, have 바카라사이트 advantage of familiarity. About half of US states already have 바카라사이트ir own version of 바카라사이트 plan, allocating money to needy students at amounts necessary to cover whatever Pell and o바카라사이트r available support does not. The Democrat-backed plan in Congress would offer matching federal funds to reinforce those existing programmes and encourage 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 states to join in.
One key lawmaker in that process is Joe Manchin, a relatively conservative Democrat senator who believes 바카라사이트 $3.5 trillion figure is unacceptably large and must be trimmed back before he votes on a final version. Mr Manchin also has criticised 바카라사이트 idea of tuition-free college, saying he’d ra바카라사이트r see 바카라사이트 government focus on its existing strategy of offering loans that are forgiven at some point after 바카라사이트 student earns a degree.
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