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College costs rank as major election issue
By Beata Mostafavi
The Flint Journal
September 29, 2008
For Brittny Giles, the thousands of dollars she and her family are paying for increasingly rising tuition, on-campus housing and books is no small burden.
Students in MS, MO Lobby for Federal Aid
By Got Tuition
Daily Kos
Thanks to the hard work of Kimberly Logan, an early childhood education major at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, more than 400 students, parents, instructors and others on that campus signed petitions today asking federal and state elected leaders to make college education more affordable for more students in a variety of ways, and wore black-and-white t-shirts that read "Got Tuition?" to help make their point.
College Funding at Center of Got Tuition?'s Message
By Ben Wolford
Daily Kent Stater
September 24, 2008
Got Tuition?, a nonpartisan group owned and operated by the National Education Association, will be making a stop at Kent State Oct. 15. The group seeks to educate student voters about issues that affect them.
By Gargi Chakrabarty
Rocky Mountain News
September 25, 2008
The costly battle over Amendment 58, a ballot measure to raise tax revenues from the oil and gas industry, is at fever-pitch roughly six weeks before Election Day.
In the latest salvo, supporters of Amendment 58 - including a coalition of students, education activists and political nonprofit New Era Colorado - denounced opposition ads funded by oil and gas companies.
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