«The next generation deserves better»: Senator Rick Scott tackles Skyrocketing Education Costs in his Rescuing America Project (+Video)
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Rick Scott described how skyrocketing higher education costs are preventing young people from living the American Dream and shared his plan to fix it in the latest installment of his “Rescuing America” project.
Over the past 50 years, the cost of education surged by approximately 1,570%, leaving students with tens of thousands of dollars in debt without a job worth the cost of a degree.
Senator Rick Scott said, “My mother always said if I worked hard, did well in school, and got a job, I’d succeed. But for too many young people today, success feels out of reach. Now, students are just left with crippling debt from student loans, making it impossible to get ahead. When the federal government started lending unlimited amounts of money to kids for a college education, universities took advantage, tuition costs skyrocketed, and outcomes for students got worse. The next generation of leaders deserves better than this. We need to shrink the size of government and hold universities accountable so education can become affordable and effective again.”
As Governor of Florida, Senator Scott made keeping Florida’s higher education affordable and accessible a major priority of his administration and secured major wins for families and students. He fought to hold the line on tuition at Florida’s public colleges and universities, vetoing any attempts to increase costs, eliminating automatic tuition increases, and successfully preventing any tuition hikes between 2012 and 2018.
Senator Scott also repeatedly challenged Florida’s higher education institutions to reduce costs for students and improve post-graduation job placement rates. This work included his $10,000 Degree Challenge and the “Ready, Set, Work” Challenge.
When Senator Scott ended his term as Governor, every public college and university in Florida that offered baccalaureate degrees also offered at least one $10,000 degree. Similarly, by the end of his term in 2018, all 28 state colleges and 12 state universities accepted his “Ready, Set, Work” Challenge and agreed to commit to 100% of their graduates either graduating to a four-year university or gaining full-time employment within a year of graduation.
Under then-Governor Scott’s leadership, Florida became the best state in the nation for higher education in 2017, according to U.S. News and World Report.
BACKGROUND:
This video is the latest in a series of Senator Scott’s “Rescuing America” project to restore the American Dream based on three simple principles:
Balancing the federal budget.
Cutting government regulations.
Creating private-sector jobs.
Senator Scott has championed his Changing Our Learning, Loans, Endowments, and Graduation Expectations (COLLEGE) Act to hold universities accountable for the skyrocketing price of higher education.
Senator Scott laid out his goals for the project in an op-ed published in Newsweek titled, “How To Rescue America From the Spread of Socialism.”
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