A progressive political action committee announced this week that multiple Democrats in high-profile Senate races would back calls for debt-free college in the wake of Bernie Sanders’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a political action committee focused on backing left-leaning policy ideas and candidates, announced that eight Democratic candidates for Senate were getting behind the goal of debt-free college. The debate over free college became a flash point in the presidential primary, and the backing of Democrats in such key races signals that the party will continue to make the issue a prominent one in the fall in a nod to Sanders’s supporters. “My colleagues and I are working to make debt-free college a reality for millions of working families across the country, because no one should be saddled with a lifetime of debt for pursuing their education,” said Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat.

July 15, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed