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A comment on Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition. Parent comment

Re:Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and E... by kec on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:29PM (#19722635)
Because people will still want to go to private universities, same as today.
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Re:Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and E... by sokoloff on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:45PM (#19722802)
To the extent that college serves as a signaling mechanism, people may want to go to private colleges even more than today.
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Re:Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and E... by dragonwriter on Monday April 22, 2019 @05:59PM (#19723434)
Most of the levers available to eliminate public tuition can also be leveraged to restrain private tuition. It's not like expensive private schools don't lean heavily on the feds for funding, both student and research.
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