A bad plan to undermine the viability of private higher education and further a federal takeover of public higher education, disguised as help for students

You want to help students?

Give them a fixed amount of credits per student per year to spend on tuition at any school of their choice for any degree or certificate of their choice, as the GI Bill used to give GIs.

They could spend the money at public or private schools, at community colleges or voc-ed schools, on bachelor's degrees or advanced or professional degrees.

No strings, no Trojan horse carrying a further regulatory assault on the independence of these institutions from, if not government altogether, then anyway the federal government.

And no blatant effort to undermine private colleges and universities by offering help only to students at public ones.

Bernie Sanders proposes free tuition for four year degrees at public colleges