Missouri Republican state representative promises to raise money for higher education scholarships
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Missouri Republican state representative promises to raise money for higher education scholarships

Date: April 22, 2010
By: Scott Kanowsky
State Capitol Bureau

Intro:  The House Higher Education chairman says he wants to raise nearly 70 million dollars for higher education scholarships by 2014.
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Wrap:  House Higher Education Committee Chair Gayle Kingery says funding for this plan comes from appropriations from the budget.

He says no tax or fee increases will be needed.

Kingery says Missouri needs to up financial support for higher education.

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Description: "Higher ed has become such a big issue not only in the nation, but around the world. And we have large community college and four-year college group in our state and we're trying to climb the ladder--we're very low on the ladder."

The Missouri House passed a bill to equalize the need-based scholarship funds between private and public universities.

From the State Capitol, I'm Scott Kanowsky. 

Intro:  The House Higher Education chairman wants to raise higher education funding by 2014, much to the disbelief of the House Democratic leader.
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Wrap: House minority leader Paul LeVota voiced his lack of faith in a plan to increase money for higher education scholarships to 150 million dollars.

House Higher Education Committee Chair Gayle Kingery says he plans to find these funds in Missouri's budget if the economy gets better.

LeVota said he has his doubts.

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Description: "It's going to be very difficult to increase the Access Missouri scholarship in the next few years, because substantially we won't have the money to do that. So, it's a good goal, but we need to have a more balanced approach when it comes to our entire budget so we can do those things that are important for kids to go to college."

A bill to equalize higher education scholarships between private and public universities passed the House.

LeVota voted against the legislation.

From the State Capitol, I'm Scott Kanowsky.