Education Finance Quotes

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It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

What many don't know is that Arizona has a something called the State Land Trust - a fund with assets that have been set aside and invested for decades specifically to benefit education.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it.

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.