State Budget Trims Education -- New Legislature May Alter Spending Proposal in 2012

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JACKSON - Though likely different from what returning legislators will approve after the first of the year, Mississippi legislative leaders on Tuesday proposed a $5.39 billion budget for fiscal 2013 that would slightly cut state education funding and reduce spending at the Institutions of Higher Learning by 1.9 percent.

Legislative Budget Committee members proposed a spending plan that is $127.4 million less - about 0.6 percent - than the state is projected to spend in the 2012 fiscal year, which ends June 30.

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State Budget Trims Education -- New Legislature May Alter Spending Proposal in 2012

A chunk of that reduction, $24.2 million, would come from the Mississippi Adequate Education Plan, but overall state education spe...

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