"Free Tuition" ROFLMAO Somebody is gonna pay for it

[guohua]

SF reaches deal for free tuition at City College
Yes My Friends,,,,, Now California is going to issue everyone a 'Participation Diploma' and 'Participation Degree'. Next they won't bother with grades at all!  

City College of San Francisco will be free of charge to all city residents under a deal announced Monday by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Jane Kim that college trustees hope will lead to an enrollment jolt and more state funding for the school.

Under the agreement, which is expected to take effect in the fall, the city will pay $5.4 million a year to buy out the $46-a-credit fee usually paid by students.
The city’s contribution will also provide $250 a semester to full-time, low-income students who already receive a state-funded fee waiver. They will be able to use the money to pay for books, transportation, school supplies and health fees. Part-time students with fee waivers will get $100 a semester for the same purpose.

“Now we can say to California resident students that your City College is free,” Lee said at a City Hall news conference with Kim, City College trustees, faculty members, acting Chancellor Susan Lamb and others. “This is a good story.”

Nothing is Free!
Isn't SF a sanctuary city? Don't the illegals deserve free college, too?

Kim said all San Franciscans who have lived in the city for at least a year will be eligible.
“Even the children of the founders of Facebook,” she said, noting that kindergarten through grade 12 is free to all.

The money will come from a measure that San Francisco voters approved in November, Proposition W, enacting a transfer tax on properties selling for at least $5 million. The Board of Supervisors had earlier voted to use about $13 million of the annual revenue from Prop. W to make City College free to anyone who lives or works in San Francisco — but it was a nonbinding resolution that didn’t formally commit the money for that purpose.

After the election, Lee resisted committing the money to pay for City College fees because voters rejected a proposed sales tax increase on the same ballot that had been expected to bring in $150 million a year. Kim then accused Lee of raiding transfer tax revenue to make up for the loss of the sales tax.
The new deal represents a compromise.
Prop. W is expected to raise $44 million annually, with most going into the city’s general fund. The new deal will send $5.4 million of that to students — not to City College — for their fees.
Of that, $2.1 million a year for two years has been committed to students for their free education at City College, after which the allocation would have to be renewed by the city. The remainder will go to the students who already have fee waivers.

It’s not clear how many students will benefit from the city funding. The $2.1 million will buy 45,000 academic credits, said Hydra Mendoza, Lee’s education adviser and a member of the San Francisco Board of Education. That amounts to just 3,750 students taking a full-time load of 12 credits.
Source

Would YOU Hire One Of These Snowflakes?
Isn't that nice. More freebies to the poor buy votes. Called pandering

[Mystic Wanderer]

Our state is offering one free class per semester too, or something like that.  I think I heard the Governor say he was going to increase the gas tax a few cents to pay for it.

If Cali is doing the same thing, maybe it's something the education department is pushing on a country wide level so people that can't afford it can get a better education. If retirement wasn't around the corner in a few years, I'd go take some refresher courses in office occupations, computers, etc.

[BIAD]

I would be tempted to switch off the lights in any State that allowed this sort of
craziness to occur, but I'd wager most of the West coast would be in darkness.

What is it with Californians?

[alex]

SF reaches deal for free tuition at City College
Yes My Friends,,,,, Now California is going to issue everyone a 'Participation Diploma' and 'Participation Degree'. Next they won't bother with grades at all!  

City College of San Francisco will be free of charge to all city residents under a deal announced Monday by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Jane Kim that college trustees hope will lead to an enrollment jolt and more state funding for the school.

Under the agreement, which is expected to take effect in the fall, the city will pay $5.4 million a year to buy out the $46-a-credit fee usually paid by students.
The city’s contribution will also provide $250 a semester to full-time, low-income students who already receive a state-funded fee waiver. They will be able to use the money to pay for books, transportation, school supplies and health fees. Part-time students with fee waivers will get $100 a semester for the same purpose.

“Now we can say to California resident students that your City College is free,” Lee said at a City Hall news conference with Kim, City College trustees, faculty members, acting Chancellor Susan Lamb and others. “This is a good story.”

Nothing is Free!
Isn't SF a sanctuary city? Don't the illegals deserve free college, too?

Kim said all San Franciscans who have lived in the city for at least a year will be eligible.
“Even the children of the founders of Facebook,” she said, noting that kindergarten through grade 12 is free to all.

The money will come from a measure that San Francisco voters approved in November, Proposition W, enacting a transfer tax on properties selling for at least $5 million. The Board of Supervisors had earlier voted to use about $13 million of the annual revenue from Prop. W to make City College free to anyone who lives or works in San Francisco — but it was a nonbinding resolution that didn’t formally commit the money for that purpose.

After the election, Lee resisted committing the money to pay for City College fees because voters rejected a proposed sales tax increase on the same ballot that had been expected to bring in $150 million a year. Kim then accused Lee of raiding transfer tax revenue to make up for the loss of the sales tax.
The new deal represents a compromise.
Prop. W is expected to raise $44 million annually, with most going into the city’s general fund. The new deal will send $5.4 million of that to students — not to City College — for their fees.
Of that, $2.1 million a year for two years has been committed to students for their free education at City College, after which the allocation would have to be renewed by the city. The remainder will go to the students who already have fee waivers.

It’s not clear how many students will benefit from the city funding. The $2.1 million will buy 45,000 academic credits, said Hydra Mendoza, Lee’s education adviser and a member of the San Francisco Board of Education. That amounts to just 3,750 students taking a full-time load of 12 credits.
Source

Would YOU Hire One Of These Snowflakes?
Isn't that nice. More freebies to the poor buy votes. Called pandering

I think we should separate California from the union before they voluntarily secede. That way, they won't ask the Feds to fund any part of their free tuition scheme.

[guohua]

@"alex"  I'm sure the Dem's are Pandering for Votes. The Snowflakes that require a Safe Place To Blow Their Nose Need Pandering To!
Let us not forget their Mandatory Course for their Free Diploma!