Smart Dem candidate could make propose of easy college affordability for all by make simple change to to Dept of Education accreditation requirement.
To be accredit, each university be require to make 1 class available online for free every few year.
Dept of Education then create online “University of the United States” and cobble together degrees compose of these classes.
Students could earn degree in IT, for example, with one class provide by Berkeley, another by the University of the Florida, another by University of the Michigan, etc (all top public university in the IT).
Because government get class content for $0, is tuition can be set by sliding scale of free for most American family up to very affordable for even wealthiest families. This money be use for cover cost of setup and operation of online University of the United State.
There some holes in U.S. internet coverage that be problematic, but each student still be eligible for Pell Grant that could be spend on cellular connect data and computer until these hole fill by investment in internet infrastructure which need happen anyway
and cost far, far less than the proposal offer by any of progressive democrat candidate and also provide benefit to everyone in rural areas - not just for the students in the rural and poorer area.
