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Yesterday, as part of his plan to deliver a better bargain for the middle class , President Obama kicked off a two-day bus tour across New York and Pennsylvania in which he announced an ambitious agenda to tackle rising college costs, make college more affordable, and improve value for students and families.
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AL The Birmingham News (Underwood): New Obama college sports car rental west palm beach fl affordability plan would tie federal sports car rental west palm beach fl aid to the school sports car rental west palm beach fl s educational value -- A new plan being proposed by President Barack Obama Thursday would rate the educational value of colleges and tie their value to federal aid offered to students, essentially paying sports car rental west palm beach fl colleges for better performance, the White House revealed Thursday. The plan would address rising college tuition costs have increased over 250 percent in the past three decades. Under the proposal, borrowers would be allowed sports car rental west palm beach fl to cap their student loan payments at 10 percent of their monthly income. The college rating system would tie aid to the college s affordability, the number of students on Pell grants, and the college s ability to produce outcomes, such as graduates with degrees, earnings of graduates, and other factors. LINK
CO- The Denver Post (Anthony Cotton) Local educators may play role in implementing Obama s college plan- Colleges and universities in Colorado might already be ahead of the game when it comes to the plan proposed Thursday by President Barack Obama that aims to make college education more affordable by tying federal financial aid to new college ratings. LINK
CT The Connecticut Mirror (Thomas): College too expensive? Obama proposes solution -- As the cost to attend college continues to spiral upward, President Barack Obama will announce Thursday a proposal to tie federal financial aid to a new college rating system and to limit how much students will need to pay each month for their student sports car rental west palm beach fl loans. Obama, who will make the announcement at a college in Buffalo, N.Y., will need Congressional approval for both initiatives, White House officials said during a conference call with reporters Thursday. LINK
FL Orlando Sentinel (Postal): President Obama proposes rating colleges on costs, outcomes -- President Barack Obama announced sports car rental west palm beach fl plans today for a new college rating system that could help students and their families better control rising tuition costs. The ratings aim to help American families determine which schools provide the best value and eventually could be tied to student sports car rental west palm beach fl financial aid offers. The proposed rating system, which the president wants in place by the 2015 school year, is part of an effort to make college more affordable and to fundamentally rethink about how higher education is paid for in this country, the president sports car rental west palm beach fl said in an email posted on the White House website. We ve got to shake up the current system. The rating sports car rental west palm beach fl system would judge colleges and universities based on their affordability, on the access they provide to disadvantaged students sports car rental west palm beach fl and their academic outcomes, such as graduation rates and their graduates job earnings, the White House said. LINK
LA The Times-Picayune (Alpert): President Obama: escalating college tuition increases not sustainable -- Warning that many young people are being priced out of college sports car rental west palm beach fl while others sports car rental west palm beach fl are going heavily in debt to afford tuition, President Barack Obama Thursday proposed linking some federal aid to schools that keep costs affordable and maintain solid graduation rates. He also said states need to reverse the recent trend of reducing allocations to state colleges. In the past five years, state funding for higher education in Louisiana has been cut by nearly $700 million. Seventy percent of funding now comes from tuition and fees. LINK
MA The Boston Globe (Jan): Obama targets high cost of college -- President Obama unveiled a plan Thursday to rein in exploding college costs, drawing skepticism from some New England college presidents concerned about tying federal funding to a new performance rating system. Under Obama s plan, the federal government sports car rental west palm beach fl would develop a report card by 2015 for all public and private sports car rental west palm beach fl colleges sports car rental west palm beach fl that would measure tuition increases, graduation rates, student debt, and even graduates earnings to help students pick schools that offer the best value. The White House hopes that by 2018, two years after Obama s term ends, Congress will pass legislation that would link the ratings to how much schools will receive sports car rental west palm beach fl in federal financial aid the controversial sticking point for some lawmakers and college leaders. Colleges that keep their tuition down and are providing high-quality education are the ones that are going to see their taxpayer funding go up. It is time to stop subsidizing schools that are not producing good results, Obama said in a speech at the State University of New York Buffalo. LINK
ME The Portland Press Herald (Miller, Bouchard): Obama s college-aid plan plays well in Maine -- College administrators, students and lawmakers in Maine had largely positive reviews Thursday for a series of proposals by President Obama that essentially would grade the nation s colleges on their affordability. The president s plan would, for the first time, rate colleges on criteria such as tuition and student debt, and eventually tie federal aid to schools based on how they measure up. I think that is a good way to hold colleges accountable for the services they provide and for how affordable they are, said Jimmy Jung, vice president for enrollment management sports car rental west palm beach fl at the University of Maine. LINK
NY The Buffalo News (Vogel, Zremski): Obama stresses higher education as pathway to middle class -- President Obama told an energetic crowd inside the University sports car rental west palm beach fl at Buffalo s Alumni Arena this morning that he chose to speak in Buffalo about his goals for higher education because the university is doing great work. I wanted to start here at the University at Buffalo, Obama said, at the beginning of his remarks on the topic of higher education. Obama unveiled a set of proposals that he said would improve the ways that colleges work and make college education more affordable sports car rental west palm beach fl for families and the process easier to understand. Higher education cannot be a luxury, Obama told the audience in Amherst. It s an economic imperative. LINK
NY The Journal News (Spector) Barack Obama tours upstate, offers higher-ed reforms to reduce sports car rental west palm beach fl loan burden sports car rental west palm beach fl -- President Barack Obama continues his two-day bus tour across upstate New York Friday after spending Thursday promoting sports car rental west palm beach fl new higher-education reforms. He spoke in Buffalo, ate lunch in Rochester with college students and visited a birthplace of women s rights sports car rental west palm beach fl in Seneca Falls. He will hold a town-hall style discussion Friday at Binghamton sports car rental west palm beach fl University about college affordability. The visit is his longest in upstate New York during his presidency. Obama said he wanted to visit upstate to tout its wealth of colleges sports car rental west palm beach fl and address sports car rental west palm beach fl the cost of public and private sports car rental west palm beach fl schools. He proposed measures to boost accountability at colleges and lessen sports car rental west palm beach fl the burden of loans on graduating sports car rental west palm beach fl students. New York students leave college with an average sports car rental west palm beach fl of nearly $26,000 in loans, he said in Buffalo. LINK
NY The Niagara Gazette (Gulley): Obama seeks better bargain for college -- President Barack Obama on Thursday became the first sitting president since Millard Fillmore in 1853 to speak at the University at Buffalo, as he outlined a sweeping overhaul sports car rental west palm beach fl of the nation sports car rental west palm beach fl s higher education system aimed at delivering a better bargain for the middle class. We can t price the middle sports car rental west palm beach fl class and everybody trying to get into the middle class out of a higher education, he said, adding that keeping soaring tuition costs in check is an economic imperative that, if not addressed, could stifle economic mobility for generations. LINK
NY The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Tumulty, Goodman): Obama s college proposal received warmly by local educators -- Local educators Thursday generally praised President Barack Obama s blueprint for making college more affordable, saying it builds sports car rental west palm beach fl on some of the innovations undertaken by the State University of New York to increase access to higher education. The president unveiled the proposal at the State University at Buffalo Thursday and will field questions about it Friday at a town hall-style setting at SUNY Binghamton. He is making a two-day bus tour of upstate New York and Pennsylvania that s timed to coincide with college students returning to campuses for the academic year. Obama credited scholarships and loans for helping him and first lady Michelle Obama graduate from college and law school. But he said they did it with a mountain of debt that they didn t finish sports car rental west palm beach fl paying off until he was in his 40s, just before he ran for the U.S. Senate. LINK
OH Cleveland Plain Dealer (Farkas): Obama to propose a rating system for colleges, which could determine federal sports car rental west palm beach fl financial aid awards -- President Barack Obama is expected to unveil today a new plan to rate colleges based in part on affordability and the ratings may determine federal financial aid awards, according to the Associated Press. The new rating system, which could be impletemented by the 2015 school year, would evaluate colleges on a series sports car rental west palm beach fl of measures, including average tuition and student loan debt, graduation rates, sports car rental west palm beach fl and the average earning of graduates. The president will explain the proposals during a two-day bus tour through New York and Pennsylvania. LINK
OR The Statesman Journal (Hoffman): Oregon leaders enthusiastic about Obama s higher ed plan -- President Barack Obama s plan to improve access to higher education is closel