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    'Biggest-Ever Free College' Program Reaches 6 Percent Of New York Students

    Of nearly 400,000 full-time, in-state SUNY and CUNY students, fewer than 22,000 are getting the much-touted Excelsior scholarship this year.
    by Anya Kamenetz Oct 03, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Hanna Barczyk for NPR

    When he announced the Excelsior Scholarship, billed as the biggest-in-the-nation free college program, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo promised dreams could come true for all.

    "There is no child who will go to sleep tonight and say, I have great dreams, but I don't believe I'll be able to get a college education because [my] parents can't

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