This should be a no-brainer, but the fact that it's news says everything. In a nutshell, "A new study of the state's free tuition initiative for low-income students found middle-schoolers who completed the program were four times more likely to go to an Indiana public four-year college than those not in the program. The Indiana Education Policy Center evaluated the 21st Century Scholars Program, created in 1990 to give low-income students academic support and tuition if they maintain a C average in high school -- and stay out of trouble with the law and drugs." The program cost the state $40 million, but will most likely save the state many times that in the long run. Policy makers: are you listening?
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