March 3, 2006

Government & Politics In Brief

By SARA HEBEL

TUITION CAP: Members of South Carolina's House of Representatives are pressing legislation that would limit how much public colleges could increase tuition. The plan would limit annual jumps in tuition rates to the rate of increase of the Higher Education Price Index, a measure of how inflation affects the costs of operating colleges, plus $250 per semester. University officials oppose the plan, arguing that their institutions' boards should have sole power over setting tuition and that

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