S24: The LEARN Act of 2017

[diptheriadan]

I'd like to scrap the "public four-year universities and colleges" part and replace it with Trade or Vocational Schools. I'd also like to scrap the "Have received a high school diploma or a GED" part. Additionally, I like to lower the monetary requirements and possibly change them to relate to the poverty line or just scrap it all together.

[diptheriadan]

I'm not sure if I can vote aye on that.

[diptheriadan]

The only thing (and the biggest thing) I'm having trouble getting on board with is the the stuff for four year public universities/colleges. I think that, combined with free tuition for students in poverty would cost more money than we should spend.

[diptheriadan]

I think putting the "Diploma or GED" requirement back in for public 4/y universities would be alright.

[diptheriadan]

Two things: Firstly, could we remove the first "Whereas"? It could be argued that it is technically true, but it makes manual work seem like a universally bad or undesirable thing only for uneducated brutes. At least that's the vibe i'm getting from it.

Secondly, I have asked AZ for a full analysis on this. This will include it's effects on the budget and employment and maybe more.

[diptheriadan]

Here's AZ's analysis:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1h_jfUNraRibnplZ2NmYldFZWJWVlFNM2t6cE1LalZsQXJj/view?usp=sharing

It looks like we're going to have to put this on the back burner and get more funds.