Rubio unwittingly puts wind in Obama's sails over yet another well-promoted major production of nothingness.
Metrics are great. But they can be acquired right now if there was a need to - or much more importantly, if there were an administration that actually gave a rip about what those numbers ended up suggesting.
It's not rocket science. The article noted the key numbers - 250% price increase for the 'product' while family income has risen only 16% in the same time frame. The only productive path to take here is to find out the answer to WHY tuition has risen that high. All other pursuits are pointless.
Once we understand why tuition is what it is, a set of regulations for institutions to follow in order to reduce tuition (and room/board) costs should be created - and any educational institution who'd like to accept students who will pay with federal loans and grants (not just for tuition, but for qualifying for research awards as well) must abide by them.
This "get colleges to compete" smokescreen is yet another deplorably weak attempt by this woeful President to continue to sternly pretend that he's doing something meaningful while serving his inexplicable compulsion to sound like republican and coopt their hollow talking points. It's a two-fer in overall policy awfulness and general uselessness. All talk; that's it.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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