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[SquarePeg36 7]

Well well well, hosers. This is going to get interesting: NY to make state college tuition free for middle class under new budget

Nice! What do you think about their income line of $125K as the cut off for middle class? Seems spot on for the Northeast.

 

[limr29 2]

Well well well, hosers. This is going to get interesting: NY to make state college tuition free for middle class under new budget

Nice! What do you think about their income line of $125K as the cut off for middle class? Seems spot on for the Northeast.

Seems about right. It's apparently going to start with a $100K cut-off for Fall 2017 (this coming school year! Damn, we're going to be busy this summer) and then raise up to $125K for Fall 2019 (I think.)

It doesn't cover fees, books, or room/board. The last is not as much of an issue for community colleges at least. The student must also be full-time and I think they are defining that as 15 credits a semester. That's a lot, though. Full-time has always been defined as 12 credits a semester. And there may be a minimum GPA requirement.

It sure would be nice if the state lets us know these things soon.

I think our attention is going to have to shift rapidly towards retention and graduation instead of enrollment.

I also wonder who is going to pay for the extra parking and classroom space we're going to need to handle the higher enrollments that we're almost guaranteed to see.

Yup...this is getting interesting.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

It doesn't cover fees, books, or room/board.

I recently helped a friend figure out her son's finances for this coming year and was shocked at the fees! He's attending a state school so I was thinking it would be affordable but, although they keep the tuition low, the fees, dorms and meal plans almost doubled the annual cost. Tuition and fees $15k/yr, Meal plan $5k/yr, Housing $6k/yr, Books $1k...

 

[limr29 2]

It doesn't cover fees, books, or room/board.

I recently helped a friend figure out her son's finances for this coming year and was shocked at the fees! He's attending a state school so I was thinking it would be affordable but, although they keep the tuition low, the fees, dorms and meal plans almost doubled the annual cost. Tuition and fees $15k/yr, Meal plan $5k/yr, Housing $6k/yr, Books $1k...

Yup. Our fees are reasonable, but books can get crazy.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I saw something about that. I'm not sure how that would work...I mean,well, because of what you're talking about. It sounds nice in theory but how it would be implemented, I don't quite get... just getting into a school or it being made available is one thing, staying in school is another.

Supposedly the freshman year was always the make it or break it year, so what, will there be way more freshman fall term, then be gone by the end of the semester?? Or are there still grade point averages and whatnot to even get in? I'm not in the loop with high school (thank goodness!! lol).

Oh boy, this makes me glad I'm not in education anymore...

 

[vintagesnaps]

So 900,00 over how many schools? wonder how much impact it would have on individual schools.

Actually, this reminds me of when our state changed eligibility for our EI programs, and our caseloads went way up and time spent with families/number of home visits went down. But you adjust and adapt. (And there was talk of a motor home and we could drive down the street and pick up kids as we go... kidding of course!)

 

[JonA_CT]

I took my daughter to the aquarium this morning.

T and Charlotte the Sea Turtle (iPhone)...

 

[jcdeboever]

This makes me angry. Sell your United Airlines stock now... The guy was an old man and doctor. Didn't want to give up his seat for airline workers. So, they forced him off the plane
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[SquarePeg36 7]

I took my daughter to the aquarium this morning.

T and Charlotte the Sea Turtle (iPhone)...

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Mystic Aquarium? I love that place. We used to go every spring. The beluga whales are my fav. Always smiling.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

This makes me angry. Sell your United Airlines stock now... The guy was an old man and doctor. Didn't want to give up his seat for airline workers. So, they forced him off the plane
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Airline crews have, imo, gotten a bit obnoxious with their power over passengers in recent years. The one where they wouldn't let the young child up to use the bathroom and then gave the mom attitude when the poor thing peed in her seat... and my favorite when they cut short a flight and landed somewhere else to deplane a young family because the mom dared to make a stink that they were playing a racy and violent movie on the overhead screen that she didn't want her young boys to see...

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

Sharon did her best Gary A impersonation tonight and whipped up a perfectly medium rare prime rib like it was nbd. Grabbed a very quick pic with my daughter's iPhone before we dug in. Vegans, vegetarians, dieters---nothing to see here.

 

[table1349]

This makes me angry. Sell your United Airlines stock now... The guy was an old man and doctor. Didn't want to give up his seat for airline workers. So, they forced him off the plane
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Daily Darwin Award.

 

[JonA_CT]

I took my daughter to the aquarium this morning.

T and Charlotte the Sea Turtle (iPhone)...

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Mystic Aquarium? I love that place. We used to go every spring. The beluga whales are my fav. Always smiling.

Yup. It's about 15 minutes away from here. My wife worked in Education during grad school and we've had a membership since.

 

[SquarePeg36 7]

What I don't get about that United Airlines madness... if they ask for volunteers and don't get any, most airlines up the compensation until they have a few takers. So no one wanted the $200 voucher they were offering? Make it $400 or $500 or even $2k - all cheaper in the long run than the terrible PR they are getting with man handling a passenger off the plane. Just a terrible management decision by the gate agents (I believe that is who is in charge in that situation).

 

[JonA_CT]

My wife flew Spirit Airlines to Tampa this weekend. She drove to Framingham with a friend, took the bus to Logan, and then they canceled their flight about 40 minutes before take-off because they didn't have a pilot. I'm going to guess they knew that awhile before. These airlines can say all they want about profits. They must be doing alright, because they put my wife up in a nice hotel gave her 70$ in food vouchers, and refunded her one-way fare because they canceled her flight. I'm guessing they still made money on her fare.