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Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned colleges and universities have lost a quarter of their students in the last decade, and this year recorded the steepest single-year loss. Chancellor Dan Greenstein says that dip is tied to the system’s funding, and the lack of financial support schools can offer low- and middle-income students.

Pennsylvania’s governor is proposing a scholarship program for in-state college students for a third time. The stakes haven’t changed, but neither has the opposition from the horse-racing industry, whose revenues would partly fund the program.