Despite a broad potential scope, “MassReconnect” program is expected to start out small, helping around 8,000 students in its first year. But Healey presented it as part of her administration’s broader reinvestment in public higher education, after years of flat or declining state support.
Even my shithole state of Tennessee has had free community college for almost a decade. It’s wild seeing some of the “good” states getting the same thing this far down the line.