Oregon’s Bold Plan For Tuition-Free College
- Anna posted in School, Education and College
On the day federal legislators let student loan interest rates double, Oregon’s legislators passed a bill to make student loans obsolete.
The proposal is really only a tiny, tentative first step in that direction–calling for a committee to decide to create a pilot project–but it’s nonetheless a conjunction of many inspiring rarities: A fresh idea, passed swiftly and unanimously, bringing real progress to increasingly crushing student debt. And it all started, fittingly enough, in a classroom full of debt-ridden college seniors at Portland State University.





