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Friday, September 06, 2013

Move Over, Obamacare. Here Comes Obamaschool

The president gave a speech on August 22 in Buffalo outlining his proposal to “reform” the student loan program. He acknowledged that the program has some problems, but assured the audience they are easily fixed. Just take the principles behind Obamacare and apply them to education. The president personally “guaranteed” that his proposals would make college more affordable.

Here’s the plan. The government will rate colleges based on fees (the lower the better) and graduation rates (the higher the better) and student success in finding a job. Then student loan funds will be allocated to schools according to the rating. Students will also be guided to the best-rated schools via government web sites. And schools will get more funding if they set up demonstration projects to reduce costs. This will all encourage more “competition” among schools. Yes, you heard that right: more government control of colleges will increase market “competition.”

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is very similar to the education system in... wait for it....
THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.

Obama gets most of his transformational ideology from guess who?

Karl Marx.

Anonymous said...

Boy - I'm glad I didn't step in any of that.........

Pure Hoya!

Anonymous said...

so will finding a job in your career path rate higher then one at mcdonalds?

Anonymous said...

Hitler couldn't have done it any better..

Anonymous said...

Mentally ill this one is.The force is not strong in him.I'm calling his presidency "The Irrational Years".Almost every week the citizens of the US wake up to another totally unworkable plan.The polls are generous to Obama.His approval rating should be zero.