Free College: California Pitches Ambitious Plan To End Student Loan Debt
If California Assembly Democrats have their way, California college students may benefit from the nation’s most ambitious plan to date for students to avoid student loan debt.
The Degrees Not Debt program, which California Democratic lawmakers proposed Monday, would assist nearly 400,000 University of California and California State University students pay for tuition and living expenses – with the ultimate goal to help students avoid student loan debt.
According to student loan debt statistics from Make Lemonade, the average student loan debt per graduate in California is $22,191. Student loan debt per capita in California is $4,160 compared with the average student loan debt per capita in the U.S. of $4,920.
According to the California Assembly Democratic Caucus, the program would be implemented over five years and cost $1.6 billion.
“It’s by far the most comprehensive and wide-reaching proposal in the country,” Lupita Cortez Alcalá, executive director of the California Student Aid Commission, told the Los Angeles Times.
The plan also increases grants to community college students and would make the first year of community college tuition-free.
Students would still have access to Pell Grants, Middle Class Scholarships and other university scholarships. Students whose parents earn more than $60,000 per year would be expected to help pay for college, and students would be expected to hold a part-time job to help cover college costs.
The remaining tuition costs – about $33,000 at University of California schools and $22,000 at California State schools – would be covered by the program.
According to the California Legislative Office, more than 60% of Cal State students and approximately 50% of University of California and community college students have their tuition fully covered by existing California aid programs, which total about $2 billion. Continue reading here
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