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New York could become largest state to offer tuition-free public higher education
April 10, 2017 /
Budget negotiators struck a deal late Friday that could make New York the largest state to offer tuition-free public higher education.
The $163 billion state budget agreement includes the Excelsior Scholarship, which covers tuition for any New Yorker accepted to one of the state’s community colleges or four-year universities, provided their family earns less than $125,000 a year.
Proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in January, the scholarship taps into one of the Democratic Party’s most popular ideas and advances a bipartisan movement to lower the cost of college that is taking shape across the country.
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
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