That is pretty darn awesome.
Including room and board and books. A foster youth exiting high school or aging out of the system can now depend on four years of housing in exchange for getting an education. Fucking awesome, and why I’m proud to be a Californian.
This is what society should be. Enabling those of us without advantages to attain what they’re capable of.
The fact that this actually acknowledges that room and board and textbooks has to be included for it to be truly free and accessible to the recipients is incredible. Wonderful news!
Stuff like this makes me proud to live here. It ain’t perfect, but we are trying.
No place is perfect. There are many places doing better, but they have gone through all the other cycles of shittery, and have landed on better. I have hopes for the west coast.
Dad voice:
Do we want innovation and increased prosperity instead of crime? Because this is how we get innovation and increased prosperity.
Send kids who started at a disadvantage to free college, you’re gonna get innovation and increased prosperity. There’s no getting around it. It’s gonna make everyone better off. I hope that’s what California wants, because that’s what they’re going to get.
But… What’s the catch? Is there a catch?
What do you mean?
I hate that this is a valid question…
In California, right?
Children and teens in foster care across California will be able to attend state and community colleges free of charge under legislation signed into law this week.
Through the new Fostering Futures program, the state will allocate $25 million to cover tuition for foster youth attending a California State University, University of California or a community college, according to state Sen. Angelique Ashby’s office.
Yes, in California.
