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In September 2014, the Missouri Department of Higher Education announced a possible reduction of reimbursement to current and future college students. According to Leroy Wade, deputy commissioner of the Missouri Department of Higher Education, the changes could take place as early as January 2015. [3]
America's College Promise was a proposal by the Barack Obama administration to offer all students two free years of community college tuition. [1] [2] [3] It was based on the Tennessee Promise, a similar program for the state of Tennessee. State level programs, like the Tennessee Promise, have faced critique for their ability to fill tangible ...
At that time, there were 53 College Promise Programs in place. By 2017, 16 states had at least one statewide College Promise program. [1] A year later, the College Promise movement grew to over 300 programs in 24 states. [8] As of September 2019, it was observed that there are over 320 College Promise Programs in 47 states nationwide. [9]
With CUNY recently announcing that its journalism school would be tuition-free by 2026 and Michigan Reconnect, a community college program launched in 2021 by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, possibly ...
The FCC introduced its Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) at the start of 2022 to help struggling households afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.
SB 727 authorizes DESE, a state department overseen by the Missouri State Board of Education, to make the rules for taxpayer-provided “empowerment scholarships” to private schools.
In July 2023, a study showed about 14% of the United States was enrolled in the program. [20] As of July 31, 2023, 19.8 million households had signed up for the ACP, with 2.8 million of them in rural counties. [12] By August 2023, there were reports the program would run out of money by 2024. [12]
Appropriated by the Missouri General Assembly in 1986, students initially received a statutory maximum of $2000 per year. Many students and higher education officials have observed that tuition expenses at the University of Missouri, for example, were below $2000 in 1987 and thus were fully covered by Bright Flight at its introduction.