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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 651022" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Uh, I said <em>support</em>, not free tuition. Caution: TL/DR below.</p><p></p><p>We need to re-up the California model. What they did to make their university system the envy of the world and the model for the rest of the US was simple. First, the state subsidized tuition so that most families of young people who could get into the UC system could afford it if they kicked in on their own. That made sure that most eligible kids could get in and both the state and the families had skin in the game. Then the state went on an infrastructure project to provide places for the students to go and profs to teach them. Both sides of this meant higher taxes, but the state got a much more highly educated population and a much higher state income, advantages they have never relinquished since. Other states - Massachusetts was the most successful - imitated this and got the same results.</p><p></p><p>Until Howard and Ron. The program cost a lot of money, especially the infrastructure part. (Tuition subsidies were nowhere near as costly.) So when Proposition 13 passed and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement became prominent, Ron was able to ride a tax reduction program to the governor's chair. This made him the first California governor in the modern era to not treat the UC system as the golden goose it was and, to a lesser extent, still is. This, in turn, led to other states reducing taxes on the backs of post secondary education, to the Feds coming up with Pell grants and student loans (and the attendant crisis today), and to the constant sound of sucking heard in college administration buildings whenever somebody with money comes in view.</p><p></p><p>We need to stop this. NOW. The US is now 13th among OECD countries in the percent of our college-age students who are in school. That number is not, repeat <em>not</em>, trending up. Our economic future depends on how well educated our population is. The choice is simple: stand in place, see the percentage of the population with college degrees continue to plunge, and become Brazil or pony up and remain the US.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 651022, member: 265"] Uh, I said [I]support[/I], not free tuition. Caution: TL/DR below. We need to re-up the California model. What they did to make their university system the envy of the world and the model for the rest of the US was simple. First, the state subsidized tuition so that most families of young people who could get into the UC system could afford it if they kicked in on their own. That made sure that most eligible kids could get in and both the state and the families had skin in the game. Then the state went on an infrastructure project to provide places for the students to go and profs to teach them. Both sides of this meant higher taxes, but the state got a much more highly educated population and a much higher state income, advantages they have never relinquished since. Other states - Massachusetts was the most successful - imitated this and got the same results. Until Howard and Ron. The program cost a lot of money, especially the infrastructure part. (Tuition subsidies were nowhere near as costly.) So when Proposition 13 passed and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement became prominent, Ron was able to ride a tax reduction program to the governor's chair. This made him the first California governor in the modern era to not treat the UC system as the golden goose it was and, to a lesser extent, still is. This, in turn, led to other states reducing taxes on the backs of post secondary education, to the Feds coming up with Pell grants and student loans (and the attendant crisis today), and to the constant sound of sucking heard in college administration buildings whenever somebody with money comes in view. We need to stop this. NOW. The US is now 13th among OECD countries in the percent of our college-age students who are in school. That number is not, repeat [I]not[/I], trending up. Our economic future depends on how well educated our population is. The choice is simple: stand in place, see the percentage of the population with college degrees continue to plunge, and become Brazil or pony up and remain the US. [/QUOTE]
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