Texas Legislature Gives Public Colleges the Power to Set Tuition

By WILL POTTER

The Texas Legislature has voted to give the state's public universities free rein to increase tuition, in a move that lawmakers say will help the state deal with mounting budget shortfalls.

The bill, which Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, has said he will sign, would end decades of legislative control over tuition rates. Under the...

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