July 23, 2004
Lawmakers Spotlight a Positive Measure of Public Spending on Higher Education
It's harder to complain that a glass is half empty when someone else is giving thanks that it's half full.
That's the hard political lesson being learned by some public-college associations as Congress debates the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, the law that governs most federal student-aid programs.
Most of the associations want the government to spend substantially more on higher education and are arguing that state support has plummeted in recent years. But one
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