Twenty contenders will discuss the issues next week in another two-night round of debates.
These plans and priorities have been compiled from each candidates campaign website.
Joe Biden
No plan provided.
Steve Bullock
Cory Booker
College costs
Make community college and vocational training free.
Simplify the federal financial aid program process.
Establish a path to debt-free college.
Student loans
Protect student loan borrowers by holding student loan servicers accountable for predatory practices.
Pete Buttigieg
Establish a state-federal partnership that makes public college free for lower-income families.
Confront student loan debt.
Provide more support for students entering public service.
Julian Castro
Eliminate tuition at public colleges, universities, community colleges and technical and vocational schools.
Expand Pell Grants to a maximum grant of $10,000.
Streamline the FAFSA system process.
Require zero monthly loan payments until a borrower earns at least 250% of the federal poverty line.
Make all loans have an interest accumulation cap.
Prohibit origination or similar fees for student loans.
Allow borrowers to discharge or restructure their student loan payments via bankruptcy.
Streamline thePublic Service Loan Forgivenessprogram.
Require universities to certify private loans and inform students about federal loans that might provide better terms.
Increase funding and maximum award amounts for the Pell Grant program.
Award scholarships to people who complete service in a new national service program.
Expand eligibility for income-based repayment programs.
Make forgiven student-loan amounts tax free.
Reduce loan interest rates to be equal with the interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds.
Allow bankruptcy to discharge student loan debt.
Tulsi Gabbard
No plan provided
Kirsten Gillibrand
Expand the G.I.
Allow graduates and their families to refinance their student loans at the lowest available rate.
John Hickenlooper
Make community college free for everyone who cant afford it.
Cut the federal interest rate to 2.5% on all student loans.
Jay Inslee
Kamala Harris
Make community college free.
Make four-year public college debt-free.
Provide a tax cut for Pell Grant recipients via theLIFT Act.
Allow refinancing of high-interest loans to lower rates.
Expand income-based repayment programs.
Amy Klobuchar
Provide community college degrees and technical school certifications.
Allow borrowers to refinance student loans at lower rates.
Offer loan forgiveness for in-demand occupations.
Beto ORourke
Debt-free higher education.
Provide Pell Grants to low-income students.
Triple the funding for the Federal Work-Study Program.
Double the funding forTRIO ProgramsandGEAR Up Programsfor low-income students, students with disabilities and first-generation college students.
Cancel all student loan debt.
Cap student loan interest rates at 1.88%.
Elizabeth Warren
Make public college free for every American.
Invest an additional $100 billion on Pell Grants and expand eligibility to help cover non-tuition expenses.
Cancel student loan debt of up to $50,000 for people with a household income of under $100,000.
Provide substantial debt cancellation for people with household incomes between $100,000 and $250,000.
Make canceled student loan debt income tax-free.
Marianne Williamson
Provide free college or technical school for every qualified student.
Offer student loan amnesty.
Reduce the loan repayment period from 10 years to 5 years.
Reduce the interest rate to zero or a nominal percentage range.
Eliminate origination fees on federal student loans.
Eliminate annual caps on federally subsidized loans.
Andrew Yang
Increase investment in vocational training.
Make attending community college nearly or completely cost-free.
Reduce interest rates and confirm borrowers can refinance at those rates.
Ask schools to forgive in part or in whole the debts of borrowers who did not graduate.
Explore blanket partial reduction of outstanding student loans for recent graduates.
Support a program that allows graduates to pay a percent of income instead of a fixed amount.
Make it easier to discharge school debt in bankruptcy.
Establish a grant program that forgives student debt for graduates who work in rural or underprivileged areas.