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Texas Tribune Festival: Funding for higher education a concern for Texans

Van Nguyen
September 24, 2016
Chelsea Purgahn

Funding for higher education is a hot topic going into the next legislative session. There have been talks in 2016 of cutting tuition set-asides and possibly cutting parts of the Hazelwood Act. The Texas Tribune's Matthew Watkins moderates a discussion on funding higher education Saturday with current state representative Helen Giddings, former state representative Dan Branch, UT-Austin president Gregory Fenves, state senator Kel Seliger and Robert Duncan, chancellor of the Texas Tech University system.

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