Daily News | The Pa. House again rejected $650M for in-state tuition discounts at Pitt, Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln
HARRISBURG — For a second time this year, House Republicans blocked on Thursday the state from sending hundreds of millions of dollars to the state’s four state-related universities, in hopes that they can acquire greater oversight of each school’s tuition increases, public records, and more.to its four state-related universities: the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, Temple, and Lincoln.
Rep. Donna Bullock highlighted Temple founder Russell Conwell’s famous “Acres of Diamonds” speech, in which a man searches for riches, only to realize they were in his backyard. “We are bankrupting students and families while we have given record levels of funding to these institutions,” said Rep. Dawn Keefer . “Yet the tuition continues to rise beyond any students’ ability to pay that debt.”
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