{"id":10776,"date":"2024-03-20T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10776"},"modified":"2024-03-24T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T16:22:48","slug":"oregon-promise-of-free-community-college-failed-to-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10776","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Promise of Free Community College Failed to Deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oregon was hailed as a national leader by Bernie Sanders and Democratic leadership when it pass Senate Bill 81<\/a> in 2015 offering free community college to residents. Fast forward to 2023 and it’s now on the chopping block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\u00a0new report by the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Committee<\/a>\u00a0(Which has been interestingly removed by the state and replaced with a much slicker brochure-style with NONE of the relevant data that summarizes these failures. The original report is still on the wayback machine<\/a> and I include a local copy here<\/a>) found that the Oregon Promise has failed by almost every measure. Here’s just one of their conclusions:<\/p>\n\n\n

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It has failed to encourage more high-school graduates to enroll in college, failed to narrow equity gaps in enrollment, and failed to increase college completion rates. And while it has helped a small number of students afford to go to college, most low-income students approved for the program still can\u2019t meet the costs of higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile Oregon had some unique issues, overall the findings are not unique to Oregon,\u201d he said. \u201cOther places where this has been tried, you find a small pop in enrollment the first couple of years, and then it comes back down to pre-program levels, doesn\u2019t really seem to do much in the long run to boost enrollment, or even movement onto four-year degrees.\u201d

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