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States would be eligible to participate, the paper says, if they promised to keep their higher-education funding "at a level equal to the average of the last five years," and if they also provided "at least a 25-percent match for the federal formula grant" and played "a more active role in holding colleges accountable for their performance and costs." The states, in turn, would funnel money to colleges -- public, private, and for-profit -- but the institutions would all be required "to enroll a substantial share of low-income students," meet students' financial needs by keeping their costs at or below their estimated family contribution, and also meet "accountability performance measures." No Change for 'Fisher' Speaking of Texas, the unexpected death of the Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has upset the court's conservative/liberal balance and upended expectations for a number of cases the court heard last fall -- but not for the one of most interest to colleges, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.