“Create and fund a new program, MassReconnect, in her first budget to offer free community college to students over age 25.”
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Verified. As Governor, Healey made MassReconnect her own signature initiative rather than merely supporting it: she proposed/announced it ahead of the FY24 budget, included $20 million to create it in her first budget, signed that FY2024 budget into law (Aug 9, 2023), and personally launched the program, awarding $100,000 to each of the 15 community colleges. The program delivers exactly what was promised — free community college (tuition, fees, books/supplies) for Massachusetts residents 25+ without a prior degree. This is genuine leadership (authored/funded/signed/launched), so it clears CHAMPIONED rather than only FULL. The Berkshire CC and WBUR quotes were confirmed verbatim via direct fetch; the mass.gov primary source blocks the fetch user-agent (HTTP 403) but is independently corroborated by web search, which returned the exact URL and the exact headline used as the quote, plus the underlying facts.
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