U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III yesterday praised President Obama's proposal to make community college free for qualifying students, but acknowledged the challenge Democrats face in getting it approved and funded by a Republican-controlled Congress.
"It's a great plan. It's a great starting block," he said yesterday after speaking with students at Middlesex Community College Health and Science Laboratories in Lowell with U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas. "We've got to find a way to get that through Congress and get that paid for."
What also can't be ignored, Kennedy said, is the reality many community college students face of finding a way to pay not only for tuition, but also for fees, books and housing, and of balancing school with the demands of a job and a family.
"If we want to incentivize this alternative pathway — which we absolutely do because we need those skills, we need that talent — we have to recognize the fact that that traditional model of an education ... needs to be rethought," he said.
Community colleges play an important role in the student-to-employer pipeline, connecting many students with internships that give them valuable work experience and a competitive advantage when they graduate, Kennedy said, but most community college students can't afford to work an unpaid internship.
"One of the solutions that comes up time and time again," he said, "is allowing education credits for that work. They may be able to get a stipend or something that may be below your typical wage, but because they're getting credit for it, it enables the student to designate that time ... (and) earn that skill set and that reputation with that employer so that it tightens that pathway from the classroom into a job."
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