Articles from the July 17, 2019 edition

Updated Jul 17, 2019

Students at Lamar State Colleges in Orange, Port Arthur and Beaumont will pay substantially lower tuition and fees starting this fall. State Rep. Dade Phelan, who led the fight to increase funding for the two-year colleges, was joined by LSC Orange President Thomas Johnson and the other schools’ leaders to announce the tuition cut Wednesday morning in Beaumont. ”Cutting tuition by 25 percent, that’s unheard of,” Johnson said. “this is huge.” The recently approved state budget provides an additional $17.3 million to narrow t...