Article: Virginia Education Analyst Backs End to Tuition Freeze for State Colleges.

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Sep. 15--NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--Virginia should lift its 3-year-old freeze on tuition as part of a proposed overhaul in the way the state supports its colleges and universities, a senior policy analyst said Monday.

The freeze, which remains in effect through next year, was meant to halt the skyrocketing increases imposed by schools when they struggled through the recession in the early 1990s and suffered cuts in state funding. But keeping a lid on tuition has skewed the formula that the state has relied upon to decide how much money each school gets, said J. Michael Mullen, deputy director of the State Council of Higher ...

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