says the new plan to offer free tuition to top students in the state of Minnesota is going to hurt his college big time.

Note: The state of Minnesota have tuition reciprocity agreements with the states of Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota.

says this Sacramento Bee article. The article says in around 18 years it is going to cost around 300 grand to send a kid to private four year college.

The article is on a boy named Jonathan who is in the program and what he does as a student in the program.

that the new plan for all day kindergarten lacks enough resources and enough space for the extra classrooms.  The extra classrooms can easily cost an extra 200 million which is not budgeted for in the all day kindergarten plan the article says.

in the state of Iowa will be able to go onto Iowa State University in a bachelors program if they meet all the requirements.

closer in getting new merit scholarships bill passed.  The bill would allow a student who passes the ACT exam 1 grand as a freshman, one grand as a sophomore and 2 grand at the completion of a 2 year degree.  Students who fail the ACT exam would get 4 grand only when they get the two year degree.