April 2, 2004

Who Should Pay the Bill for a Private Education?

By DOROTHY BLANEY

With tuition increasing on average 14 percent at public higher-education institutions and 6 percent at private ones, everyone is talking about college prices, including people in Congress. Senate Democrats have proposed legislation that would punish states that reduce spending on higher education. Taking a quite different approach, another proposal, by a Republican congressman, would have blocked colleges that raised their tuition too high from participating in certain federal student-aid

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