N.C. Legislators Try to Sidestep a Veto That Keeps Community Colleges in the Federal Student-Loan Program

June 9, 2011, 12:03 am

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina want to let community colleges opt out of the federal student-loan program, but a veto by Gov. Beverly Perdue in April shot down a bill to carry out that plan. Since then, the Associated Press reports, lawmakers have been trying to get around the veto by rewriting “local bills,” which cannot be vetoed, to list colleges that want to opt out. Four such bills were approved on Wednesday. The N.C. Center for Public Policy Research has criticized the use of local bills as deceptive, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Nationwide, about 9 percent of community-college students attend colleges that do not participate in the federal student-loan program, according to the Project on Student Debt.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.

E-mail

nampman

If the CCs do their job of educating, they should have no fear of the requirements of the Federal Student-Loan Program. This is just corrupt politicians acting at their worst.
atana09

Good that Governor Perdue used her veto power in the interest of the students and community colleges. No doubt the NC GOP would like to present these bills as a local control issue, which seems to be the tack used when the agenda behind the move is detrimental to families, students and workers.
Really quite transparent, the NC GOP wants to opt out of federal direct so another generation of students can be sold, soul and parcel to corporate and private student lenders. The federal direct program is hardly perfect and the continued lack of consumer protections in these loans is problematic. But a transparent attempt to hand NC students back into the maws of the commercial lenders is roughly the equivalent of allowing Satan to handle the collection plate at church-lots will be taken but no good can come of it.
1021ajr

If the GOP is really going to continue to pursue this path that all government is bad, I wish they would simply go ahead and resign from it.

Good luck to the colleges and students in the North Carolina CC system!
neudy

Since NC is now a Banking Industry, and banks have taken a beating lately (rightfully so), they are pushing their way into new forms of revenue. What better way than be offered thousands of students as potential customer/clients/slaves/etc.