New York set to become first state to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges

Budget negotiators struck a deal late Friday that could make New York the largest state to offer tuition-free public higher education.

New York set to become first state to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges 0m952l

New York set to become first state to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges 0m952l

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.

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“Today, college is what high school was — it should always be an option even if you can’t afford it,” Cuomo said in a statement Saturday. “With this program, every child will have the opportunity that education provides.”

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New York set to become first state to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges

New York set to become first state to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges

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