Kansas Lawmakers Move to Make Colleges Give Partial Refunds for Online Learning

A panel of the Kansas House of Representatives has advanced a measure that would require public colleges to give a 50-percent tuition refund to students forced to take classes remotely instead of in person due to the pandemic, The Kansas City Star reports. The lawmakers amended the higher-education budget to mandate that students be refunded half of their tuition for every day they were online instead of in the classroom, and 100 percent for days they did not have classes at all. To take effect, the measure would need to be approved by both chambers of the Kansas Legislature, and one Republican lawmaker called it “a discussion starter.”