By Rachel Ocampo, Courier Staff Writer
Many students in California are pushing to have free college education. They were inspired by the “College-for-All Act” which was first introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders.
This year, students around California have been collecting over hundreds and thousands of signatures from residents 
who believe that this act should be added into the voting ballot in November. If the act is passed, about 4 billion dollars would be used to fund free public college education for 2.6 million students in California. Students around California are still collecting as many signatures as they can. In order for the act to be listed on the ballot, at least 800,000 petition signatures need to be collected by April 24.
Currently, college students are juggling both school and their jobs in order to pay off their tuition to attend college. Many believe that the College for All Act will be able to let them stay focused on school without having to worry about the debt they’re going to have to deal with in the future.
For this act to work, taxes would need to be raised higher. There are people wouldn’t like the idea of higher taxes yet that’s the main aspect for the whole act to succeed.
Senior, Alyssa Castillo, considers the act as “great [since] it would open up more opportunities for people to go to college and study whatever they wish.” She also mentions that “if college was free to everyone and everyone can study whatever they wish, the market would be flooded with degrees and according to the Washington Post, only about 27% of college grads actually have a job that relates to their degree.”