When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
Me going to college was not an option.
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.
My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.
Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions process worked in the United States or the importance of standardized tests.
I wrote the Michigan 2020, which was a free college plan, before Bernie Sanders ever offered it on the national level.
Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college.
That issue of student debt and college affordability is probably what I would say reinforced that I was a Democrat.
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
