A Degree With Zero Student Debt. Does It Work? [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 5/31/184:00 AM

Justin Napier is exactly the kind of community college graduate Tennessee was hoping for.

In high school, Napier didn't have his eye on college. In fact, he had a job lined up working on race cars after graduation. But in the spring of 2014, a year before Napier graduated, Gov. Bill Haslam announced a plan to make community college free for graduating high school seniors, part of a broader plan to dramatically increase the number of adults in Tennessee with college credentials. It was called, grandly, the Tennessee Promise.

"We are committed to making a clear statement to families that education beyond high school is a priority," Haslam said in his State of the State address that year.

[For more on this story by EMILY SINER, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/e...nt-debt-does-it-work]

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