Plan Gives Victims’ Families Free Tuition

Families of victims of last week’s terrorist attacks would get free tuition to New York’s public colleges under a plan announced in Albany.

Gov. George Pataki said the scholarships, worth about $12,000 a year, would cover tuition, fees, room, board and transportation.

“These families should not have to worry about how they are going to pay for college,” Pataki said.

Eligible would be families of New York victims who died or were seriously injured in the attacks, whether in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or on the hijacked planes, officials said. Scholarships for families of victims from other states and countries would be limited to those whose relatives died.