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Colleges unlikely to escape cuts in state budget

Source: shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2016/11/28/colleges-unlikely-escape-cuts-state-budget/94535396/ - Nov 28, 2016

BATON ROUGE - Lawmakers are bristling at the possibility of yet another round of cuts to colleges, after taking a hatchet to higher education financing for years. But with Louisiana struggling through its 14th midyear budget gap in nine years, it seems unlikely campuses can escape unscathed.

That number, a tally delivered to the joint House and Senate budget committee, is stunning: Louisiana has closed 13 midyear deficits since the 2008-09 fiscal year.

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