Education board endorses UI tuition amendment

KPAX: The state Board of Education is endorsing a constitutional amendment to allow tuition at the University of Idaho, a move expected to help the Moscow school manage its budget. The board voted Thursday to support the constitutional change Idaho voters will likely consider in November 2010. An Idaho law, from when the school was founded in 1889, forbids most UI students from paying tuition. Vandals instead pay "student fees," which cannot be used to pay professors. This means the university, unlike other Idaho schools, cannot shift student fee money to shore up instruction costs. State lawmakers voted for the constitutional amendment during the 2009 Legislature.

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