The idea of free college is garnering more attention as presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton works the crowd-pleasing concept into her campaign stump speeches. It was a tenet of Bernie Sanders’s attempt to secure the Democratic nomination. And it’s a prospect that seems to be gaining broader support from families as college costs and student debt rise.
This week, as he rolled across the country in a big yellow bus on his “back-to-school” tour, U.S. Education Secretary John King used a stop here at Pellissippi State Community College to pay homage to the roots of that idea and to urge a resistant Congress to move toward making free community college a nationwide reality.
[For more of this story, written by Emily Deruy, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/edu...ot-a-fantasy/500180/]
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