The former vice president would make two years of community college free.
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden outlined a $750 billion-a-year higher education package that would make two years of community college free and supercharge federal funding for Pell grants, workforce training programs and historically black colleges and universities
Choosing to call it a “plan for education beyond high school,” rather than a higher education plan, Biden’s proposal, which he released Tuesday morning, does not go as far as many of his primary opponents in making four years of college free or eliminating student loan debt, but instead focuses on strengthening the services students need to stay in college and graduate.
“I’ve seen so many lives changed by community college and technical programs, especially in underserved places,” said Jill Biden, the vice president’s wife who is a community college professor at Northern Virginia Community College, and who spoke to reporters Monday evening in helping to introduce the plan. “These programs are flexible and they meet students where they are.”