Senate Republicans pushed back against President Obama’s college-affordability agenda at an education-committee hearing Thursday, expressing doubts about the administration’s plans to reward colleges and states that hold down tuition and maintain their higher-education budgets… during a question-and-answer session with the under secretary of education, Martha J. Kanter, Mr. Burr asked whether states that trim their higher-education budgets after years of steady growth would be spurned from a proposed $1-billion grant competition for states that keep costs under control. “I find it incredible that we might exclude a state that ticks up a little more than others because they have held [tuition] down for so long,” he said. Ms. Kanter responded that the administration would judge states based on their “long-term policies in place to stabilize tuition”—suggesting that states would not be excluded from the grant competition on the basis of a one-year cut.

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by Kelly Field, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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