April 1, 2005

Statehouse Digest

By KARIN FISCHER and SARA HEBEL

RETHINKING TUITION: Just two years after the Texas Legislature voted to give the state's public colleges the power to set tuition, state lawmakers, displeased by hefty rate increases, are moving to take back control. Measures have been introduced in both houses to cap the amount by which colleges can raise tuition, while two bills filed in the House of Representatives would strip the institutions' boards of regents of the authority to set tuition rates. A budget bill passed last week by the

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