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...increasing number of jobs, Kerry plans to offer a “two-for-four” system. If you give America two years of service, the Kerry administration will fund the equivalent of four years of in-state education—which can be applied to tuition at private institutions or, if the service comes after college, can be used for loan repayment, directed towards vocational training or business start-up fees...
...years, films such as Stealing Harvard have peddled the perception that the College is prohibitively expensive for low-income students. Indeed, Tom Green’s film about an uncle who resorts to convenience-store robbery to pay his niece’s tuition found a comfortable place in the pantheon of commercials, television shows and movies that assume Harvard’s gates are only open to the wealthy. But, as any actual Yardling can tell you, the College isn’t only need-blind, its financial-aid program is one of the best in the country...
...will do a lot for low-income undergraduates. Under Summers’ plan, parents earning less that $40,000 a year will not have to pay anything for their child’s education, and parents making between $40,000 and $60,000 will receive significant reductions in the tuition they...
...Harvard justifies its continued policy of asking students on financial aid to produce a certain amount—to be made up of job, loan or some combination of the two—as a “self help” contribution toward the bottom line of their tuition bill. As Director of Financial Aid Sally Donahue noted in a November Crimson interview, “in general I think people appreciate experiences more by contributing to them...
Three years from now, a case comes before the Supreme Court arguing for nation-wide parochial school vouchers—programs that use public money to subsidize tuition for religious schools. Proponents of the case cite two recent Supreme Court decisions: a 2002 ruling in which the Court upheld vouchers for parochial schools in Cleveland and a 2004 ruling that forced Washington state to fund theology majors at religious colleges. The combination of the two rulings makes the case’s outcome inevitable: the Cleveland voucher program affirms that taxpayers’ money can pay for religiously-affiliated schools...