Education
Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez believes that everyone has the right to an affordable, high quality education — starting at pre-K and extending through post-secondary education. As a lifelong public school student, she understands the importance of funding our local K-12 schools and public colleges. That is why she has proudly advocated for full federal funding towards educational programs, such as Head-Start and TRIO, which ensure all students have access to affordable pre-k and receive the support they need to apply to and attend college, respectively.
She also pushed President Biden to keep his promise to forgive $10k in student debt, and she believes we need to do more. She believes we should forgive all outstanding federal and private student loans, and she supports eliminating tuition and fees for all public universities. For more on the Congresswoman’s work on this issue, please see below.
More on Education
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) this week took to Instagram Live and Twitter to explain how parent borrowers benefit from President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness.
Not only are student loans parents took out for their own college eligible for forgiveness, she pointed out, but also ParentPlus loans they took out for their children’s education.
- Biden just canceled up to $20,000 in student debt for federal borrowers.
- AOC lauded the relief, but she said she will keep pushing for those with higher debt amounts.
- "It is up to us, and to you, to decide if we are going to stop here," she wrote on Instagram.
President Joe Biden may have just canceled student debt broadly, but New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't think he should stop there.
THROGGS NECK, NY – On Monday, August 30, 2021, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Representative of the 14th Congressional District of New York, will hold a live press conference to announce that the House of Representatives passed federal funding for the Offshore Wind Workforce Development Project at SUNY Maritime College. Congressman Thomas Suozzi, 3rd Congressional District of New York, who jointly submitted the funding request with Representative Ocasio-Cortez, will also offer remarks.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden for his opposition to a progressive push to wipe out $50,000 in student loan debt for borrowers, saying that his argument against it "is looking shakier by the day."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman in Congress, gave her colleagues a first-hand look at what many people her age are facing when she made a student loan payment during a Congressional hearing on student debt.