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Facing projected $1 billion shortfall, state begins budgeting process
1 day ago ago from Policy Pulse - brought to you by the Show-Me Institute
By Audrey Spalding Show-Me Institute JEFFERSON CITY — The requests weren't for more money, but for a halt to additional budget cuts. On Monday, the Senate Appropriations Committee began a series of public hearings to hear various government agency representatives plead for maintained funding from the state. With state tax revenues down, however, more cuts will likely be made. We're looking at a billion dollar shortfall, said Sen. ...
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22 hours ago ago from Imam Samroni
By Robert Stevens 7 December 2009 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/educ-d07.shtml In the last weeks, hundreds of job losses and department closures have been announced at universities and colleges in Britain as the direct result of government funding cuts. The losses come as a secret government plan was leaked to the Observer, revealing that up to 133,000 Further Education (FE) student training places will be lost ...
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20 hours ago ago from Big Education Ape
Calif. Higher Ed Leaders Call for More State Funds - ABC News : "California's promise of an affordable higher education for its residents is being jeopardized by state budget cuts, the leaders of the state's college and university systems warned." The cuts threaten to violate a half-century-old document known as the Master Plan for Higher Education that has made California's higher education system a model for the world. In a rare joint ...
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7 hours ago ago from Patti's Blog - Advocate for Elders, People with Disabilities and Their Families
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17 hours ago ago from India News
Hyderabad/New Delhi: After two days of shutdown that witnessed a collision between students of Osmania University and the state police here and sporadic incidents of violence in other places on Monday, the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) today moved an adjournment motion in the State Assembly asking the State government to issue a declaration on formation of a Telangana State. The Speaker of the Andhra Pradesh assembly however, did not ...
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Calif. higher ed leaders call for more state funds
12 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Calif. higher ed leaders call for more state funds SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California's promise of an affordable higher education for its residents is being jeopardized by state budget cuts, the leaders of the state's college and university systems warned. The cuts threaten to violate a half-century-old document known as the Master Plan for Higher Education that has made California's higher education system a model for the world. In a ...
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15 hours ago ago from Good News Now
BOISE, Idaho -The University of Idaho said Monday that an agricultural research center facing closure because of state budget cuts would survive until 2014 under a proposed agreement with J.R. Simplot Co. The food processing and agricultural company one of the main suppliers of McDonald's french fries would give $300,000 each year to the center in Parma as part of the five-year agreement. In exchange, Simplot researchers will be allowed to ...
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7 hours ago ago from FanHouse
CARSON CITY, Nev. -Gov. Jim Gibbons said Tuesday he will ask the state's top economic advisers for new revenue projections as he considers another round of budget cuts and a possible special legislative session to deal with Nevada's fiscal woes. Gibbons, speaking at a news conference in Carson City, said agency heads have been given until the middle of this month to submit plans on how they would reduce spending by up to 3 percent. "I may ...
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15 hours ago ago from Media General - TriCities.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This UT president says worse economic times coming Associated Press Published: December 8, 2009 University of Tennessee Interim President Jan Simek (YAHN' SHIH'-mek) says the UT system will lose $112 million when federal stimulus funds run out in 2011. ...
Related contentGOP lawmaker: Va. gov tax boosts going nowhere
7 hours ago ago from FanHouse
RICHMOND, Va. -Even with hard times assured for public schools and other state-supported ventures, Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine's bid to end tax breaks to help balance an underfunded budget will get nowhere in a Republican-run House of Delegates, the top GOP budget writer said Tuesday. But even as Republicans, fortified by last month's elections, hold the line against new taxes, increases are virtually assured by some cash-starved local ...
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