It has become painfully evident that the American college system is bankrupting students while not preparing them for a successful future. The average cost for four years of college in the United States is $35,720. At private colleges, the average tuition is $37,200 per year. The typical cost for four years of a college education is no doubt expensive.
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Democrat Rep Rosemarie Rung Tries to Crap on Gov. Sununu’s Economic Parade…
Merrimack, New Hampshire Democrat Rosemarie Rung says things that are a bit out there, which is great for us. If you need a post topic in a pinch, see what wingnut Rosie Rung Tweeted.
Washington State ‘Free College’ Promise Collapsing Before it Gets Started
Giving away other people’s money is the foundation of Democrat Party Politics. You’ve been wronged, give us power and we’ll make sure someone else pays to “fix it.”
Beware the Educational Industrial Complex
President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address remains consequential. A five-star general, Ike warned of the dangers of the Military-Industrial Complex—an informal alliance between our military and business establishments.
NY State: Here’s 27 Million Dollars for Illegal Alien Tuition – Gold Star Families get $2.7 Million
New York State is a bellwether for New Hampshire Democrats. It will, after all, be electing our president for us once the Left gets that Popular vote thing they are after. So, this story will be of interest. The New York State Assembly just approved 27 million in tuition aid for illegal aliens.
Do You Know What Would Be Unprecedented, President Huot?
The president of Keene State college has written a letter titled ‘Unprecedented.’ Allow me to summarize. Dear taxpayers. We need more of your money or we’ll have to charge other people’s parents more for the cost of what we are passing off as a college education. And in closing… We have a vision. To keep … Read more
NH In-State Tuition For Illegal Immigrants?
HB 474 (Hearing Date: Thursday 2-7-13, 11:30 LOB 207)
This bill provides for in-state status within the university system of New Hampshire for students who are without lawful immigration status and who file an affidavit stating that the student has filed or will file an application to legalize his or her immigration status.
And yet out of state students who are permitted to vote here to elect the same representatives who may permit illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates….are still required to pay out of state tuition rates in the same University system.
Democrats.
The Bill’s sponsor is Rep Peter Schmidt
Representative Peter Schmidt (d) Strafford- District 19
Seat #:3078
Incumbent
Home Address:
PO Box 1468
Dover, NH 03821-1468
Phone: (603)743-3751
Email: reppbs@ttlc.net
HB 1607 – Public Schools Could See Buckets of Free Money
Skip just posted a nice letter from the Londonderry Superintendent of schools in which the Super appears to lobby the state Senate in opposition to HB1607. This bill establishes an education tax credit for businesses or groups that set up scholarship programs to help offset the costs of non-public school tuition. This could allow more parents to enroll their kids outside of the governments education monopoly and on paper at least take the paltry sum of $3,450.00 per student with them when the business is reimbursed for its donations with a tax credit of that amount. The business is, of course, free to set it’s award at any sum above that at their discretion, but the credit is (I assume) maxed out at $3450.00 per student.
Needless to say, the Super (Nate Greenberg) doesn’t care for the bill. By his calculation each school district will lose money it needs to teach students and would necessarily downshift those costs onto local property taxpayers to make up the difference.
That argument sounds like it might hold water–the entire lobbying question Skip raises aside–but only if taken in the vacuum of the space between the typical bureaucrats ears. I wont revisit all the Super’s arguments here, just follow the link if you feel confused, but in my district, this bill would, on paper at least, be like the school district finding a winning lottery ticket every single year.
Is It Time To End The Injustice of Out Of State Tuition in NH?
New Hampshire’s white tower liberals and their advocates in state government have been adamant about their policy on College students voting in the Granite State. While we have called this voter fraud, the Democrats insist that if you go to school here, then you should be able to vote here.
But are these “New Hampshire voters” getting screwed over by these same liberal establishment types? Are the same people who insist students should be able to claim residency for the purposes of voting for Democrat candidates, denying these students the same status when it comes to the cost of their education?
Using UNH as an example, the average New Hampshire voter who applied to attend the State school from someplace outside New Hampshire, shall not be denied their “right” to affect our elections, but must still pay 110% more per year in tuition than a New Hampshire “voter” who is defined by the university as domiciled inside the state for billing purposes. And the progressives think voter ID disenfranchises the poor?
The Cost of Defining “Adequate” In Merrimack NH
A funny thing happened on the way to the ‘off-hand comment’ on the Merrimack TEA facebook page. I was accused of not using "real and accurate data" and that my "rhetoric was not doing anyone any good."
Nothing surprising there I suppose but to stay on point–what was it I said that earned me such a response?
I announced that if you took the total Merrimack School budget and divided it by the total student enrollment that it cost more than sending your kid to UNH. This appears to have riled some people up. In fact someone sent me a nice itemized list of the "costs" of sending your kid to UNH for a year just to prove I was wrong, and to justify how Merrimack’s cost per child wasn’t as much.