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“Oregon plan eliminates tuition and student loans.” “Plan would make tuition free at Oregon colleges.”"Oregon plan would eliminate tuition at public universities.”
Those are three headlines for stories about a bill currently on the desk of Gov. John Kitzhaber (D). All of them are inaccurate. What the bill, passed unanimously by both houses of the Oregon legislature, actually does is instruct the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to design a pilot program — which would require additional legislative action to actually be put in place — to evaluate a college funding system known as “Pay It Forward.” And that system — which, again, the bill being considered would not put into effect for any students — would only “eliminate tuition” in the most technical of senses.