{"id":57563,"date":"2015-01-09T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57563"},"modified":"2015-01-09T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T14:43:51","slug":"free-community-college-proposed-by-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57563","title":{"rendered":"Free community college proposed by President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While our national defense is being slashed to the bone, the President announced yesterday on Facebook that he&#8217;s going to propose that the government will pay for a community college education for everyone who &#8220;works for it&#8221;. <\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p> <script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10153120229619238\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10153120229619238\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WhiteHouse\">The White House<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/president-proposes-make-community-college-free-responsible-students-2-years\">The White Hose blog<\/a> details the plan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The requirements:<\/p>\n<p>    What students have to do: Students must attend community college at least half-time, maintain a 2.5 GPA, and make steady progress toward completing their program.<\/p>\n<p>    What community colleges have to do: Community colleges will be expected to offer programs that are either 1) academic programs that fully transfer credits to local public four-year colleges and universities, or 2) occupational training programs with high graduation rates and lead to in-demand degrees and certificates. Community colleges must also adopt promising and evidence-based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>    What the federal government has to do: Federal funding will cover three-quarters of the average cost of community college. Participating states will be expected to contribute the remaining funds necessary to eliminate the tuition for eligible students.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, you know what? We already pay for a substandard education in our public schools &#8211; an education that would negate the need for Community Colleges if our government teachers did their jobs. This will be an excuse for them to do even less teaching. What does a GPA even mean anymore? <\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve written here before, I went to college twenty years after I graduated from high school and I didn&#8217;t learn or do anything differently than I had learned in high school. That&#8217;s called education inflation. I knocked out my first year of college with CLEP tests because I took college prep classes in high school. <\/p>\n<p>So the troops are taking pay cuts to fund this completely useless social program. The Defense Department wants to scrap weapons programs like the A-10 so that the government can hand everyone a 2-year college degree that won&#8217;t be worth the paper it&#8217;s printed on. But the teachers&#8217; unions will stand and applaud, and that&#8217;s what really counts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that the &#8220;everyone who is willing to work for it&#8221; will turn into &#8220;it&#8217;s my &#8220;right&#8221; to get a free college education&#8221; within a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our national defense is being slashed to the bone, the President announced yesterday on Facebook &hellip; <a title=\"Free community college proposed by President\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57563\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free community college proposed by President<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}