While low-income students are exempt from tuition, middle-class students aren’t. The two-income family is hurt twice. Such families have to pay full tuition because of their income, yet find that income penalizes them when applying for student aid… UC will truly be world class when Californians return to the original idea that public education should be free from kindergarten through college. Until then, educational opportunities are denied to qualified students who cannot afford the burdensome debt that tuition entails. Those middle-class students who do graduate from the university begin their professional lives saddled with enormous debts that previous generation never encountered.

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by Guest Opinion, The Vacaville Reporter.

Posted: November 27th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.