Two new plans were announced Wednesday for free community college tuition:
- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the city would provide scholarships for tuition, fees and books for all students who graduate from the Chicago public schools with a 3.0 grade-point average or higher, and who place into college-level mathematics and English at the City Colleges of Chicago.
- Cuesta College, a community college in California, announced that it will pay for tuition and fees for all graduates of a local county high school district for the first year of their programs.