Tuition increases alarm Guard (OH can't pay)

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http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0124guard.html


Saturday, January 24, 2004
COLUMBUS -- When they sign up for six years in the Ohio National Guard, soldiers and airmen are promised free tuition at any public college in Ohio, but skyrocketing tuition rates slammed the program and guardsmen are being told that they can't go this summer.
 
Tuition and fee increases at Ohio's four-year universities' main campuses averaged 11.4 percent for the current academic year, according to the Ohio Board of Regents. Tuition at those campuses now averages $6,822, which is 67 percent higher than the national average.

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"If we don't get any more money and if we have to continue to make decisions which impact folks' ability to participate, sure, it will obviously impact our ability to attract and retain soldiers. We just won't be able to do it. There is nothing else that we could offer that could come anywhere close to that. It is our single best recruiting and retention tool," said retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Koper, Ohio National Guard spokesman.
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But demand for scholarship money may increase when mobilized guardsmen return from Iraq. A new state law guarantees those soldiers and airmen tuition money, even if they leave the Guard. Koper said he expects many of those returning guardsmen to head to college.
 

[madrchsod]

1. well there goes one

of the main reasons kids sign up. both my friends girls got alot of their education paid for by the guard.
another under funded mandate that the taxpayers will have to pay for-after all it`s all about states rights...

[Bandit]

2. Nationwide tuition costs have gone up 28% since Bush* was selected

He is really for education all right. Proof is in the puddin.

[thebaghwan]

3. Sounds like to me that the Guard people have a contract whether in writing

or not and I would be holding Ohio's feet to the fire.

[liberalnurse]

4. Ohio Gov. Taft could care less.....

He is so impacted up the colo-rectal tract of *bush....he hasn't seen the light of day for years.

Ohio got what they asked for....the Democrats were lazy and didn't get out and vote. They knew what Taft was about.....or at least they should of taken the time to learn from the previous 4 years of neglect. They chose to be complacent and this is the result.

I was distraught over the loss of a potential superb Governor, Tim Hagan.

[scarface2004]

5. let them use those karl rove tax cuts!!

or eat cake for that matter!!