JACKSON - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Thursday ordered budget cuts for some state programs, including all levels of education, because state tax collections were sluggish during the first two months of the fiscal year. Barbour ordered cuts of $171.9 million in a $6 billion budget. That's about 2.9 percent of the overall spending plan. Some programs will remain untouched, while others are being asked to save up to 5 percent.
Governor Christie is telling the New Jersey Supreme Court that a "perfect storm" of declining revenue and huge budget deficits caused the state to short education funding by roughly $1 billion last year. But Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff is planning to present a much sunnier forecast for state finances today when he meets with lawmakers in Trenton.
As director of policy research for the nonprofit Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives, Nathan A. Benefield has researched and written on issues ranging from taxes and government spending to health care policy and economic development. He frequently has testified before Pennsylvania House and Senate committees on issues such as the state budget, transportation funding, privatization and education. We spoke by telephone Tuesday as Gov. Tom Corbett prepared to unveil a budget next week that some say should not include funding for Pennsylvania's Film Tax Credit.
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A deficit-busting move by state legislators in Olympia has advocates of alternative and online learning programs run by public schools crying foul, and fearful for students options. The two-year budget plan passed by the House on Saturday strips $53 million from state basic education dollars that have flowed to pay for each student enrolled in a grades K-12 alternative program.
WASHINGTON - For a telling example of the money troubles facing public colleges and universities, consider Pennsylvania. On June 30, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed a state budget that slashes funding for higher education by 19 percent, and school officials smiled with relief. For universities, it could have been much worse. In March, Corbett introduced a budget proposal that called for a 50 percent cut to higher education. But improving state revenues and a public backlash against the proposal led lawmakers to pare back the governor's plan. In the end, Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities walked away with a painful but manageable cut that will result in tuition increases of 7.5 percent this fall.
Staff Writer Lancaster County schools will get a 6 percent boost in basic education funding in the 2010-11 state budget approved this week by the Legislature.
High emotions and budget meetings aren't thought to typically go together, but the 15 people who braved storm warnings to attend a public hearing on education and the state budget, hosted by state Sen. Pam Jochum, D-Dubuque, at the Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Dubuque, were clearly passionate - and frustrated. There's nothing left to cut. Expectations are higher, and we have nothing," said Liz Weber, a reading specialist at Fulton Elementary School.
SANTA FE SPRINGS - The budget is the top concern of those running in Tuesday's election for three seats on the Little Lake City School District board. Incumbents Lynn Berg, 68, and Richard A. Martinez, 60, concur with challengers Kenneth D. Arnold, 65, and Janet E. Rock, 61, that balancing a budget amid the threat of more cuts to education by state legislators is the No. 1 issue the board will face.
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