46th District Candidates on Making College Affordable
By: Rachel Havey
Updated: October 26, 2012
Leading up to Election Day, we're finding out where local candidates stand on the issues. In the 46th District Race for the Illinois State Senate seat, Incumbent Democrat Dave Koehler is challenged by Republican Pat Sullivan. Tonight we're asking the candidates what needs to be done to make college more affordable to all students.
Sullivan:
"Duplication and high pay of people that get these jobs that only work 9 hours a month or a week you know, we have to start looking at reforming some of this. We have to educate our young people, even people that are out of jobs want to be educated so they can move forward. And so we have to get that under control. Another more billions being spent that we should look at."
Sullivan:
"Duplication and high pay of people that get these jobs that only work 9 hours a month or a week you know, we have to start looking at reforming some of this. We have to educate our young people, even people that are out of jobs want to be educated so they can move forward. And so we have to get that under control. Another more billions being spent that we should look at."
Koehler:
"We've encountered this situation every year and that is funding of the MAP grants, the monetary assistance program, that students whether they're in public schools or private colleges can, they depend on that. Because that allows working middle class kids to go to school. And we have to do that, if we're going to keep up with being a global economy we're gonna have to have the brain power there, ya know to be able to run our industries and do business on a world wide basis."
