Louisiana Senate panel backs tuition increase bill
BATON ROUGE, La.—A proposal to let Louisiana's public colleges raise their tuition up to 10 percent a year received the unanimous backing Thursday of a Senate committee that loosened the restrictions contained in the bill and sped up the allowed increases.
But the Senate Education Committee reworked the bill to allow the schools to get two years of tuition increase authority, beginning in the fall -- before they have to meet the lengthy list of performance benchmarks required under the measure.
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