For some college students nationwide, including those at Amarillo College, the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, signed into law this summer, is far from “beautiful.”
Community colleges like ours are meant to be a place where ambition meets affordability, but some aspects of this new law risk turning our dreams into a financial nightmare, leaving many of us to wonder if we are, in fact, going to be one of those children left behind.
Far from creating opportunity, parts of this new law threaten to deepen the divide between those who can afford college without worry and those who scrape together the funds every semester and rely on financial assistance…