Private school tuition rises discourages middle classes
By United Press International
With tuition, room and board at many of the better private secondary schools rising to the $4,000 a year range, such education is pricing itself out of the market for most of the middle class—even the upper middle.
The $25,000 to $30,000-a-year executive, himself possibly a product of a private school, has to think pretty hard about those prices, especially with his children's college education still ahead.
The recent fast rise in tuition at private schools has tended to exclude them from students other than those whose families are very affluent or those of limited means who are attending on full scholarship because the institutions are seeking an economic and racial mix. Typically, the modest scholarship funds of the private schools have gone to academically promising students from low-income families.
Now, however, the nation's largest residential schools for boys and girls have come forward with a unique financing plan for the forgotten people in the middle income range.
Mount Herman and Northfield schools, the brother-sister institutions in East Northfield, Mass., are offering student loans with the principal sum payable over a 10-year period—after the student has finished college. Interest will be charged at the rate of 5 per
Tax bill passes Kansas House
A bill to remove tax-exempt status of dormitories and student union buildings at state colleges and universities passed the Kansas House Thursday. Also given preliminary approval was a bill authorizing utilization of $2.5 million in revenue bonds for construction of Wescoe Hall.
The real estate tax on dormitories and student unions increases student fees from $7 to $19, Max Bickford, executive officer of the Board of Regents, said. Dormitory rents are to rise from $92 to $183 annually. The cost to students and their parents totals $3 to $4 million a year.
Due to increased construction of private student housing and an increase in enrollment at two-year junior colleges, campus residence halls have suffered occupancy problems.
Freshmen and sophomores now utilize more resident hall housing than upper classmen.
Bickford said freshmen enrollment has not increased greatly since 1968 because of increased enrollment at junior colleges.
The junior level enrollment has increased because of transfer students from the two-year junior colleges, Bickford said.
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Howard L. Jones, president of Northfield and Mount Herman schools, says a recent survey of 6,000 former students in the 35 to 45 age bracket showed that two-thirds were interested in sending their children to the schools but that half needed financial assistance. Jones concedes that in their zeal to help
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the disadvantaged, private schools overlooked the extent to which the sharp tuition rise was discouraging middle income families.
Governor candidacy announced Thursday
14 KANSAN Feb.27 1970
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)—Alabama's George C. Wallace announced Thursday he would be a candidate for governor and immediately sounded the racial school issue battlecry which he apparently still hopes will put him in the White House.
With his opposition tuning up on the theme that Wallace would be only a "part-time" governor because of his interest in the presidency, the newly-announced candidate lost no time in saying he has no interest in national politics if the people of Alabama are "satisfied with the action taken with respect to state schools."
But he quickly added: "Should you not be satisfied, I would only have an interest in national involvement should you, the people
of Alabama feel that I might make some further contribution to the fight. . ."
Wallace, who served as Alabama governor from 1962-66, put together a third party presidential movement in 1968 and picked up 13 million votes in his bid for the nation's top office. He has vowed to keep the movement alive.
Unquestionably the most popular politician in recent Alabama history, Wallace successfully ran his wife for governor in 1966 when he was prevented by the state constitution from succeeding himself.
But many believe he stands a good chance of being beaten in his current bid.
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