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Seattle Times Article — “Seattle high-school graduates will get 2 free years of community college. Here’s how it will work”

Earlier this month, Seattle voters approved the city’s most expensive education levy ever. The tax includes a measure that gives future high-school graduates of Seattle Public Schools two years of community college tuition-free, no matter how much their families make.

Seattle joins a wave of programs across the country that have been created by lawmakers, or voters, that aim to remove the barriers to higher education for all students by sending a simple message: Don’t worry about the cost of college — just prepare yourself in high school, and go.

Here’s what you need to know about how the program will work, and when aspiring college students will first see their tuition breaks. … Click to read more.