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First Of All, College Is Rarely Free Support for LAist comes from Community college tuition in California has always been waived for very low-income students (e.g., yearly income of $39,300 or less for a family of four). And, in fact, no one paid tuition up until the 1980s. But in 2017, when the legislature started funding community colleges to provide free tuition for other students through promise programs, some headlines hailed it as free college. Many Let s be clear: It s not free college. It s free tuition. And, especially in California, there s a big difference. Tuition, particularly in California, is only a fraction of the cost of attending college, said California Community Colleges Chancellor ....