Students at Maryland’s state universities will be paying a little more next school year. The University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents approved tuition and fee hikes at a meeting in Baltimore on Wednesday. The 2.4 percent increase over this ...

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The Board of Trustees of St. Mary's College of Maryland, a state-funded liberal arts college in St. Mary's County, has agreed to freeze in-state undergraduate tuition for the 2013-14 academic year at the current rate, as a result of $800,000 in new funding that was approved unanimously by the House of Delegates and the Senate during the just-concluded legislative session.

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ANNAPOLIS — Voters on Tuesday approved allowing illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria to pay in-state tuition at public colleges, making Maryland the first state in the nation to pass by popular vote a version of the Dream Act. Illegal ...

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Law schools are still increasing tuition even though the number of people applying to law school has dropped dramatically ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. states face long-term budget burdens that are already limiting their ability to pay for basic services such as law enforcement, local schools and transportation, a report released Tuesday said. Aging populations and rising health care costs are ...

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COLLEGE PARK — The Board of Regents for Maryland’s university system has approved a 3 percent tuition increase for most in-state students. The board approved the tuition hike on Wednesday. This is the third year in a row that tuition ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — President Barack Obama tells college students that he and his wife, Michelle, know what it’s like to owe student loans because the two of them didn’t come from wealthy families. He says: “When we married, we ...

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An immigrant-rights group’s bid to block a referendum on the Maryland Dream Act is not over yet. The state’s top court has revived Casa de Maryland’s quest to keep the question off the November ballot, agreeing to review a judge’s ...

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Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Ronald Silkworth ruled Friday that a referendum to challenge a new law granting in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants can go forward on this November’s ballot. In his opinion and ruling, Silkworth rejected arguments ...

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Growing pains sometimes pay off. That’s what officials at Stevenson University said Tuesday as they announced a $10.5 million purchase of a 28-acre property once home to Shire Pharmaceuticals — and adjacent to the school’s Owings Mills campus. The property ...

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