Perry outlines plan to lock in college fees

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Perry outlines plan to lock in college fees

By Mike Ward

Updated: 10:13 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Published: 10:11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, 2012

Expanding his earlier push against escalating higher-education prices, Gov. Rick Perry on Friday endorsed a four-year tuition "freeze" at state colleges and universities as a way to give freshmen certainty about education costs.

How it might work: Instead of an actual freeze, it would guarantee or lock in a tuition rate for a student for four years that would be exempt from any tuition increases.

Presumably, students who entered school in different years might get different tuition rates guaranteed.

A fifth year of study presumably would go back to prevailing tuition prices.

Giving the opening address Friday evening at the Texas Tribune Festival,

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