Lamar Alexander actually said...

I think turning the fiction around by simplifying it and maybe even working with States to encourage the idea of free community college, if you need for it to be free, would do a lot to increase the number of low-income students who go to college.

Context

Advocating for free community college to boost low-income student enrollment.

11/13/2013

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