Thursday, June 10, 2010

Louisiana Senate panel backs tuition increase bill - Boston.com

Louisiana Senate panel backs tuition increase bill - Boston.com

Louisiana Senate panel backs tuition increase bill

By Melinda Deslatte
Associated Press Writer / June 10, 2010
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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.
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As the proposal received approval from the House, schools would only be allowed to raise tuition if they meet performance improvement benchmarks, like increasing admission standards, improving graduation rates and boosting efforts to get students into jobs. The tuition increases could have begun in the 2012-13 school year.
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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