“If I were a student, I would give it [attending] a second thought,” she says. “When you have universities that don’t have a lot of support from alumni and outside sources, they have financial issues…Many of major universities have funding from private sources — not the case with most HBCUs. Still, that does not relieve state of Texas from properly funding.”
A copy of a letter the Congressional Black Caucus wrote to Perry can be found at http://www.house.gov/list/press/tx09_green/070419.html.
--Natalie Y. Moore
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