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New Mexico promised its students free college. Then oil prices tanked
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:55 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:55 am
This article is from Nov 29, 2020.
I would imagine it’s much worse now.
NBC News
The excitement
Then reality
I would imagine it’s much worse now.
NBC News
The excitement
quote:
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said New Mexico, notoriously poor and almost last in state education rankings, would be the first state to take the step, thanks to a blue wave that swept the state in 2018, when Democrats elected Lujan Grisham after eight years of a Republican governor, flipped the state's sole Republican seat in Congress from red to blue and strengthened majorities in the state Legislature.
Then reality
quote:
But the plan, to be funded by revenue earned from fracking in the Permian Basin, never materialized. Grisham faced opposition in the Legislature, even from members of her own party, and from some college presidents skeptical about how much it would help low-income students.
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Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:58 am to Eli Goldfinger
Well they should not have wanted to fund their project with the evil oil... did they not know that oil is “Holy Water” to a Dem?
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:58 am to Eli Goldfinger
Free indoctrination? Seems like the kids dodged a bullet.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:59 am to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
New Mexico promised its students free college. Then oil prices tanked
Posted on 1/24/21 at 7:59 am to Eli Goldfinger
She’ll join the other Democrats list of how to destroy
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:00 am to Robin Masters
quote:
Free indoctrination? Seems like the kids dodged a bullet.
did you support TOPS?
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:00 am to Eli Goldfinger
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:03 am to Eli Goldfinger
Scott’s Tots!
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:05 am to Eli Goldfinger
Is Michael Scott the governor of New Mexico?
Edit: rlp, great minds think alike.
Edit: rlp, great minds think alike.
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 8:51 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:05 am to rlp
They’ll get free laptop batteries.
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 8:06 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:07 am to ksayetiger
quote:
did you support TOPS?
WTF is tops?
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:12 am to Eli Goldfinger
Imagine those high school seniors and college kids thinking their gravy train was about to leave then station when instead it all blew up as their Uber arrived to it
Reap what you sew
Reap what you sew
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 8:14 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:12 am to Eli Goldfinger
As someone who lives in NM, Governor Lujan-Grisham popularity seems to be on the fence.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:16 am to Tiger Chemist
Elections have consequences
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:16 am to Eli Goldfinger
Sounds very much like Venezuela North to me. Saddle up boys it’s gonna be a bump Authoritarian ride.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:22 am to Robin Masters
quote:TOPS is a Louisiana program that covers tuition to LA public universities if you meet the requirements. Good program but they need to make the requirements to earn it tougher. There’s different award tiers but the lowest one only requires a 2.5 GPA and a 20 on ACT
WTF is tops?
ETA: and I wish they’d add a post-graduation residency requirement so LA taxpayers get some sort of return on investment instead of paying for college education for someone who is going to move to Texas as soon as they finish school.
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 8:25 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:25 am to Tiger Prawn
quote:
WTF is tops?
TOPS is a Louisiana program that covers tuition to LA public universities if you meet the requirements. Good program but they need to make the requirements to earn it tougher. There’s different award tiers but the lowest one only requires a 2.5 GPA and a 20 on ACT
Gotchya. I live in AL so I wasn’t familiar we out that acronym.
I’m not at all opposed to needy kids getting a leg up.
I am however opposed to schools becoming indoctrination centers for leftist religion.
quote:
the lowest one only requires a 2.5 GPA and a 20 on ACT
Maybe these kids should be steered towards trade/tech schools?
This post was edited on 1/24/21 at 8:27 am
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:37 am to Robin Masters
This is the biggest failing of the US education system.
A university degree should imply that you have a higher than average capacity for reasoning and how it is applied to a specific field.
Folks with average intelligence should be steered toward a vocation.
Would a 110 IQ person be professionally better off competing with other individuals in the 95-110 IQ range, or competing with individuals in the 115+ IQ range?
A university degree should imply that you have a higher than average capacity for reasoning and how it is applied to a specific field.
Folks with average intelligence should be steered toward a vocation.
Would a 110 IQ person be professionally better off competing with other individuals in the 95-110 IQ range, or competing with individuals in the 115+ IQ range?
Posted on 1/24/21 at 8:42 am to Eli Goldfinger
Made your bed. Now sleep in it.
Posted on 1/24/21 at 9:00 am to Tiger Prawn
The irony with Tops being explained to someone in NM concerning how to pay for college now that fracking is going bye bye . TOPS in Louisiana was set up by Patrick Taylor a oilman . He put a fortune in trust to help underprivileged kids make a run in getting ahead in life . Louisiana government phucked it up . So that big bad oil company is so disastrous to a state . Only a Democrat halfwit can save us all
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