A Degree With Zero Student Debt. Does It Work?
The four-year results are in on Tennessee's free college initiative. Is this new data significant enough to sway the future of these free college programs?
by Emily Siner
May 28, 2018
3 minutes
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.
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