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President Obama addresses college students

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President Obama addresses college students

On March 11 the White House invited journalism students from across the country to listen and join in on a conference call regarding the recently announced Student Aid Bill of Rights (SABR).

President Barack Obama, U.S Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council James Kvaal gave statements over phone regarding the SABR and the Presidential memorandum that the president had signed a day before on March 10.

The memorandum was signed as an effort to get the Department of Education and other federal agencies to do more to help loan borrowers and help on previous actions the president has taken to make college more affordable.

“We’re continuing to just chip away at this problem; there’s no silver bullet,” President Obama said. “We’re going to have to do things at the federal level, state level, at the university level to really mobilize the entire country around this issue of college affordability.”

According to the president, the executive action is intended to improve the way the federal government interacts with students when it comes to student loans, cutting out the bureaucracy.

The president is urging citizens as well as Congress to sign their names supporting the SABR and reformation of college costs.

President Obama stated that the main principles of the SABR are to make affordable college available for all students, for resources that pay for college to be easily accessed by all students, for every borrower to have the right to a fair repayment plan and for every borrower to have the right to quality customer service, reliable information and fair treatment, even if the student is struggling to repay their loans.

The president got the ball rolling on college cost reformation earlier this year when he announced a plan to reduce the cost of community college to zero.

“We want to mobilize the energy and focus the attention of everybody nationally around the basic principles that can make it easier for young people to get the education they need,” said President Obama.

For information on the Student Aid Bill of Rights and to sign your name to support the bill, visit WhiteHouse.gov/CollegeOpportunity.

The managing editor of the NIC Sentinel. Tyson is on his third year at the newspaper and is skilled in different journalism subjects. He is also skilled at underwater basket weaving and juggling chainsaws.

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