{"id":19311,"date":"2015-04-03T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19311"},"modified":"2015-04-04T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:45:36","slug":"kansas-lawmakers-seek-to-freeze-state-universities-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19311","title":{"rendered":"Kansas lawmakers seek to freeze state universities&#8217; tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 State universities in Kansas could not increase tuition for two years under a proposal drafted by legislators negotiating over budget issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Three senators and three House members reached agreement Wednesday on a proposed $15.5 billion spending plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Higher education spending was a major issue for the negotiators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their budget agreement largely adopts Republican Gov. Sam Brownback&#8217;s proposals to keep spending on the higher education system relatively flat, despite a projected budget shortfall of nearly $600 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Negotiators agreed to avoid cuts in spending for the University of Kansas and Kansas State University but added a provision requiring universities to hold tuition at current levels through June 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GOP negotiators said they&#8217;re concerned about how tuition increases would affect students and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 State universities in Kansas could not increase tuition for two years under a proposal drafted by legislators negotiating over budget issues.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397],"tags":[69,374,5313,5311,5312,5310,5309,904,1000],"class_list":["post-19311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays","tag-kansas-budget","tag-kansas-colleges","tag-kansas-tax-cuts","tag-kansas-universities","tag-kansas-university","tag-tax","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19315,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions\/19315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}