Should Congress Demand More State Support for Higher Education?

Rae Ann Kelsch: No

(Below: John F. Tierney: Yes)

Just last June, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor, George Miller, along with 31 cosponsors, introduced a provision in budget-reconciliation legislation that would punish states for not maintaining certain levels of appropriations for higher education. It would have required any state not supporting "public institutions of higher education" at or above a rolling five-year average to

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