U of A Meets About Special Session
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Nervous university trustees held a special
meeting today to hear about likely cuts to state services and
higher education to pay for court-ordered changes to the public
school system.
State financial experts told the trustees the state general
programs could lose as much as 200 million dollars as a result.
A new law to meet the court order allows the state to take money
out of prisons, public health programs, higher education and other
agencies to support kindergarten through 12th grade schools.
State budget specialist Bill Goodman said the deficits would get
worse.
A university official said legislators apparently didnt
understand they were depending on 100 million dollars in
one-time funds when they revised the school funding formula.
