Funding for Penn State, Temple and Lincoln universities and the University of Pittsburgh has been snarled in the Legislature for months over a partisan dispute involving fetal tissue research and public disclosure of school records.
Republicans have repeatedly stopped the appropriation from receiving the required supermajority to get it out of the Democratic-majority House. Critics chafed at the proposed 7% increase in light of rising tuition costs and said the universities should be held to higher transparency standards.
A proposal to require the universities to freeze tuition for the 2024-25 academic year was a late addition to the bill, particularly lauded by Republicans. Democrats, who tried to circumvent the necessary two-thirds vote for the state-related schools earlier this month, called the latest vote "option C."
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