Terry Hartle, senior vice president at the American Council on Education, which represents colleges in Washington, said the cause of the price increases for the 80 percent of college students who attend public institutions is clear. State appropriations to higher education declined 18percent per student over the past three years, the College Board found, the sharpest fall on record. “To see increases of 20 percent, as we saw in California, to see gains of 15 percent in other states, is simply unprecedented,” Hartle said. “Tuition is simply being used as a revenue substitute in many states.” The latest report comes with concerns about student debt front and center among many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters… this year for the first time, California’s tuition and fee rates were above the national average, unimaginable to most experts a decade ago.

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by Justin Pope, The Contra Costa Times.

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