Pittsburgh Colleges Strike a Deal to Avert Tuition Tax

Pittsburgh’s colleges have reached a deal with the city to avert a proposed 1-percent tax on college tuition. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and other nonprofit groups will instead make payments of an unspecified amount to the city. The city council was to have voted on the tuition tax, which would have been the first of its kind in the nation, at a meeting today. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl proposed the measure to close a budget shortfall.