We all agree that tuition should be lowered so that it is affordable for students. Educators don’t agree because it may cost a little decrease in pay or raises may come later than they should. This rise in tuition has caught the eyes of some lawmakers. US Representative Howard McKeon, R- Calif. Introduced the affordability in higher education act (Johnson). If this act is passed it would let the federal government to remove direct funding to institutions that increase tuition more that twice the inflation rate (Johnson).

What about students who cannot afford tuition with these increases? Rep. McKeon also stated “Our nation is grappling with a college cost crisis that is threatening to push higher educations out of reach for low and middle income student (Johnson).” These increases are taking tolls on not only the students

We as students feel that it is not necessary to raise our tuition to pay tribute to someone who donated willingly 21 million dollars to our school. Not to sound unappreciative, but college students are away from home and have other responsibilities like books.

, but the parents too they are taking on two and three jobs to help keep there son or daughter in college.

Some of the U.S. Representatives are putting together a bill that will limit tuition increases. “Mr. Howard McKeon sponsored the Affordability in Higher Education Act to provide relief to lower and middle income households from the rising cost of higher education (Shirley).”This bill can and will establish a College Affordability Index (CAI); this will be able to measure the tuition increases to the rate of inflation.

In Texas tuition has increased at four year universities and colleges by 63 percent in the past decade, this is compared to an 8 percent increase in median family income, according to the September report from the House Education and the Workforce Committee (Shirley). “Rep. John Carter, a Texas

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