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Senator Kerry is promising One Million More Graduates

CHICAGO - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says if he's elected president, 1 million more students will graduate from college during his first five years in office and he will bring a special focus to boosting opportunities for low-income and minority students.

He admits that he'll get half this from demographic shifts and is a wee bit vague on the other 500,000:

...he'll achieve the other half by bringing down the cost of education and creating other incentives to bring students to college and keep them there.

Will we ever discuss the concept of limited government in this country again? I'm sure this wowed 'em at the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition. The Bush campaign says that these are "empty promises" and I am sure they're right.

But the Berkeley Square Blog will stand up and say "the two biggest impediments to more graduates is constant Federal meddling and over-regulation in the education sector and the miserable performance of government run primary and secondary schools." Get out of the way! Get out of the way!

ONE MORE THING: "First five years:" is that hubris or bad math?

Posted by jk at June 29, 2004 10:22 AM