Kobach tries to halt in-state tuition for non-US citizens

 

February 16, 2018



TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach is renewing a 14-year campaign to repeal a Kansas law granting in-state tuition rates to qualifying college students who aren't U.S. citizens.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Kobach testified Thursday on behalf of a bill that would end the benefit offered to those who graduated from an accredited Kansas high school or earned a general equivalency degree and started the process of acquiring citizenship. Kansas' in-state tuition is about a third of the out-of-state assessment.

Kobach tells the House Higher Education Budget Committee that...



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