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Budget negotiators struck a deal late Friday that could make New York the largest state to offer tuition-free public higher education.

The $153 billion state budget agreement includes the Excelsior Scholarship, which covers tuition for any New Yorker accepted to one of the state’s community colleges or four-year universities, provided their family earns less than $125,000 a year.

Proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in January, the scholarship taps into one of the Democratic Party’s most popular ideas and advances a bipartisan movement to lower the cost of college that is taking shape across the country.

CA is also tackling education and health care issues following Progressive policies, i.e. policies that help plain old regular people survive and thrive.

While we need to continue the fight at the Congressional/Prez level, I still think our best weapons are local legislative and policy successes, decisions/actions/results that make Trumper types eventually say "Hey, what the Hell?!? What can't I have ME some good stuff in MY crappy/selfish state?"

The best convincer ... is UNEQUIVOCAL success ....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-york-to-become-the-largest-state-to-offer-tuition-free-public-higher-education/2017/04/08/3fe0563a-1c8b-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html