Gov. Greg Abbott will prevent Texas colleges and universities from raising tuition during the next biennium.In a letter to Texas college and university leaders, Abbott emphasized the need for public universities to "take every possible step to ease the financial burden on our students and their families,

The governor’s directive extends a tuition freeze for Texas’ public universities that was approved in the last legislative session.

Texas universities should not approve tuition increases for the next two years, Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday. In a letter to higher education leaders, he cited families’ rising costs of living.