The Governor released her today and it calls for听.听This is just the first budget released to address the next biennium; we will review and analyze many Legislative budget proposals during session, which starts on Monday, January 10.听The Governor’s budget addresses the $5.7 billion deficit forecasted for the coming biennium.
As predicted,听the Governor’s budget听reduces state support for the 91探花over the next two years. These cuts came in several forms: budget reductions, fund shifts, and pension cuts. While some of the reductions are “back-filled” with authority to raise resident undergraduate tuition rates 11% per year over the next two years, the additional revenue from doing this and raising tuition for all other students (by commensurate amounts to current听2010-11 rates) will not make up the funding cuts in the Governor’s budget.
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We anticipate that the Governor’s proposal for a third and final FY 2011 Supplemental Budget will be released Friday. Information and analysis on that budget will be available Friday on this blog and on our .