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I'm honestly baffled by your first statement.  Publicly-funded higher education is a false premise? In what way?

Sure, there are approaches that would diminish its value, but I'm thinking in terms that maximize return on investment.  Only qualified, high performing students are accepted into programs, some schools are  more competitive than others, and there's a "pay back" component, i.e, recipients are required to work in civil service in some way - like the National Health Service Corps.

There are always myriad reasons NOT to do something big like health reform, social security, civil rights bills - but the benefits to figuring out how to do them are always so much greater.  I don't see how higher education is different.  Or impossible.  [/quote]

Read past PP's baffling-to-you first statement. She answers everything you ask.[/quote]

I'm the person who said its a false premise. The premise that Sanders is campaigning for it on is that it will reduce the inequality gap. That is the false premise. Free public colleges will not reduce the inequality gap, and in fact stand to increase the gap. If we make college free before we address the inequalities in k-12 education, and the problem families face in affording high quality childcare, we're not fixing the root causes of the gap, and we're making it worse. [/quote]

If you start and stop with "free college" then of course, you can say that's a false premise because nothing is free.  But if you set standards for obtaining higher education then you can give a k-12 student something to work toward.  It's not a guarantee that you'll get into top schools programs, but the current state of "got nothing for you" unless you've got 30k (regardless of what kind of student you are) is untenable. This is especially stupid when there are jobs that go unfilled or to foreign workers because Americans don't have the skills.

I don't see it as simply making college free. I see it as developing a national strategy to develop a workforce that's productive at all levels and sectors. There's a massive need for more health clinicians, particularly as baby boomers reach geriatric age. But the cost of training is so prohibitive that most kids won't even allow themselves to dream about becoming a doctor or nurse. [/quote]

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