A new report by the Center on Budget and Public Policy Priorities shows state disinvestment in higher education creates higher costs for students and their families, impacting low-income students and students of color. In the school year of 2008 to 2018, state funding for public two-year and four-year institutions has dropped by over $6.6 million, after adjusting for inflation, according to the report. This report “paints a very bleak picture,” said the report’s lead author Michael Mitchell, senior director for equity and inclusion at the Center on Budget and Public Policy Priorities. “With lowered state funding, higher tuition and increasing burdens on students, it really starts to beg the question of what constitutes public higher education.”
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