House passes Higher Education scholarship equalization.
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House passes Higher Education scholarship equalization.

Date: April 22, 2010
By: Alex Klingelhoeffer
State Capitol Bureau
Links: HB 1473

Intro:  The House passed a bill that, if signed into law, equalizes scholarship awards for students attending private and public colleges.
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Wrap: The bill would gives students who are awarded the Access Missouri scholarship a maximum of just under three thousand dollars.

Currently, students who attend private colleges receive over 4 and a half thousand dollars, while those at public schools get about half that much.

Columbia Democratic Representative Mary Still said this is a long time coming.

Actuality:  STILL4.WAV
Run Time:  00:15
Description: "Everyone gets the same amount and they can apply it wherever they choose to go. And our position where I tried to articulate yesterday was this should come sooner rather than later."

Liberty Republican Representative Tim Look defended private school students.

He said this legislation doesn't count the money the state already spends on public institutions.

The bill now goes to the Senate for passage in that body.

From the State Capitol, I'm Alex Klingelhoeffer.

Intro:  The House passed a bill that, if made into law, will take scholarship money from students at private colleges and give it to those attending state schools.
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Wrap: Currently, the Access Missouri scholarship gives greater awards to students attending private schools to help defer the higher cost.

This bill gives all students receiving the scholarship just under three thousand dollars.

Liberty Republican Representative Tim Look defended the current system.  

He said the change is protecting state institutions, not the students.

Actuality:  LOOK.WAV
Run Time:  00:12
Description: "Now despite reductions we still spend millions. Anywhere from 40 to 50 percent of our public school's funding is from the state regardless of whether or not a student shows up."
 
Columbia Democratic representative Mary Still said this bill should have come sooner rather than later.
 
The bill now goes to the Senate for passage in that body.

From the State Capitol, I'm Alex Klingelhoeffer.