Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn blasted Gov. Rick Perry for the increases in college costs since he assumed office. Strayhorn said that university tuition and fees have climbed 95.54 percent since 1999 and community college fees have climbed 71.45 percent since 1999. Strayhorn also questioned cuts in per-student university funding

Strayhorn was asked whether she believed the legislature made a mistake when it passed tuition deregulation – the transfer of tuition setting authority from the elected legislature to the appointed university regents. “I had recommended deregulating tuition,” Strayhorn said. “But I never in my wildest imagination [that] the state would continue to cut funding for higher education.

At that time, the reason we recommended tuition deregulation [in the e-Texas report] is because the state was not increasing funding to higher education, the state was not keeping up. And now, since deregulation, the state not only did not stay the same, the state has further cut funding to higher education. I believe we need to get together and talk about this.”

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