{"id":502,"date":"2020-01-16T14:08:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T22:09:19","slug":"last-year-washington-lawmakers-made-college-free-for-some-this-year-they-want-to-make-it-more-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/2020\/01\/16\/last-year-washington-lawmakers-made-college-free-for-some-this-year-they-want-to-make-it-more-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Last year, Washington lawmakers made college free for some. This year, they want to make it more accessible."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also on the table: a bill that would make college costs more transparent. If it\u2019s approved, acceptance letters to any of the state\u2019s public colleges would provide students with the estimated cost to earn a degree. These letters would also list financial-aid options, said bill sponsor Rep. Mari Leavitt, D-University Place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard if you go to the varying [colleges\u2019] websites to figure out what the costs are,\u201d she said. If acceptance letters included those figures, as well as financial-aid options, \u201cyou don\u2019t have the sticker shock of knowing this is what it\u2019s going to take.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also on the table: a bill that would make college costs more transparent. If it\u2019s approved, acceptance letters to any of the state\u2019s public colleges would provide students with the estimated cost to earn a degree. These letters would also list financial-aid options, said bill sponsor Rep. Mari Leavitt, D-University Place. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard if &hellip; <a class=\"more\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/education-lab\/last-year-washington-lawmakers-made-college-free-for-some-this-year-they-want-to-make-it-more-accessible\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}