Regarding “Free Higher Education Proliferates” (U.S. News, Feb. 11), many “free college” programs aren’t really free, and they aren’t really helping the neediest of students. The Institute for Higher Education Policy reports that programs in New York and Tennessee did nothing to make college more affordable for low-income students because neither allocated “scarce state funding to the students with the greatest need.” IHEP’s research concludes that these programs “do little to remove affordability barriers for low-income students, and instead allocate limited funding to middle- and, in the case of Tennessee, high-income...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 24, 2019 20:03 UTC