2012 State of the Union address: on Education

Jill Stein: College loans trap students in financial prison of debt

Jill Stein: Right to a tuition-free public education, pre-K thru college

We will honor the right to a tuition-free, quality public education from pre-school through college at public institutions. And we will forgive student loan debt left over from the current era of unaffordable college education .

Barack Obama: Make community colleges into community career centers

Join me in a national commitment to train two million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job. Model partnerships between businesses and community colleges are up and running. Now you need to give more community colleges the resources they need to become community career centers--places that teach people skills that local businesses are looking for right now, from data management to high-tech manufacturing.

I want to cut through the maze of confusing training programs, so that from now on, people have one program, one website, and one place to go for all the information and help they need. It's time to turn our unemployment system into a reemployment system that puts people to work.