Florida has taken pride in offering a college education at a bargain-basement price, but students are starting to get what their parents are paying for.
Consider this statistic:
If Florida's 11 public universities raised their lowest-in-the-nation tuition 1 percent statewide, it would bring in all of $4 million. This year and last year, the Legislature cut $200 million from the universities' budgets. So the colleges would have to raise tuition 50 percent just to make up what they lost.
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