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Arizona Lawmaker Seeks $2000 Out-of-Pocket Tuition Minimum « Student Activism

Arizona Lawmaker Seeks $2000 Out-of-Pocket Tuition Minimum « Student Activism:

Arizona Lawmaker Seeks $2000 Out-of-Pocket Tuition Minimum

A bill in the Arizona legislature would bar the state’s university system from providing scholarships that reduced out-of-pocket tuition to less than $2000 a year.

Republican John Kavanaugh says that keeping tuition low creates “perverse incentives” for students to enroll in college. His bill, which has 24 co-sponsors in Arizona’s 60-member House of Representatives, would restrict all grants, scholarships, and awards administered by the university, even those funded by private donors.

Students on full academic scholarships would be exempted from the regulation, as would those on athletic