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Crews will open hiking trails rarely explored off lower Rogue River ... Historic Grants Pass Forest Service compound headed to auction ... Central Point hopes to keep pot grows indoors ... Crews will open hiking trails rarely explored off lower Rogue River ... Historic Grants Pass Forest Service compound headed to auction ... OUR VIEW Our View: Free tuition could fly if 'fifth-year' plans reined in MailTribune.com Writer Posted May. 22, 2015 @ 12:01 am Posted May. 22, 2015 @ 12:01 am » Social News p bs:newslist StartDate="20121121" EndDate="p bs:datecalc Months="3"" DateSort="1" UseObjects="1" ObjectClass="81" Taxonomywords="2325,665" ExactTaxonomyMatch="1" Image="1" Count="4" --> A Beaverton lawmaker has a plan to offer recent Oregon high-school graduates a free community college education at what seems to be a reasonable cost to the state. The Legislature should give his plan serious consideration — but only if it simultaneously closes the "fifth-year" loophole that is letting some school districts send high-school students to community college with K-12 money. First, the community college plan: Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, wants to mirror a program already offered in Tennessee. The program requires high-school graduates to first apply for Pell grants and any other available scholarships, and pay a co-payment of $50 per credit. The state would pay what's left to cover all student's tuition. Living expenses and books would be the student's responsibility. Hass says this "last dollar" approach would keep the cost to the state around $25 million, a relative bargain compared with many other state expenditures. To avoid having the program balloon out of control, it would be available only to students who graduated from an Oregon high school within the previous two years. Students would be required to take solid academic courses leading toward a two-year degree or industry certificate, and to make passing grades to remain in the program. Hass says his approach is affordable because it prompts more students to apply for available federal aid and the state merely makes up the difference. He also notes that the $25 million price tag is not much more than the amount the state estimates is being spent by some school districts to send "fifth-year" seniors to community college early. Using the fifth-year loophole, some high schools are encouraging seniors eligible to graduate to hold off accepting a diploma stay in high school another year. The district then takes the per-student funding amount still provided by the state and pays for community college tuition, allowing the student to earn a year's college credit before graduating high school. This practice is somewhat controversial because it diverts money that could be used to ease crowding in elementary classrooms and other K-12 needs, and the state's biggest districts can't participate for fear of bankrupting the system. If lawmakers vote to end the fifth-year loophole, as Hass wants to do, his community college tuition plan should be enacted as well. 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