Oklahoma legislators and Gov. Mary Fallin hammer out $6.5 billion deal, which calls for using cash reserves and several revolving funds. Education overall got a 4.7 percent cut, while health and human services were cut 1.2 percent overall.
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BY MICHAEL MCNUTT, Oklahoman
Published: May 11, 2011
Public schools and higher education will face their biggest cuts in years in a state budget agreement announced Tuesday by legislative leaders and Gov. Mary Fallin.
Budget cuts for agencies range from less than 1 percent to 9 percent as the Republican leadership, who control the Legislature and the governor's office at the same for the first time in history, wrestled with a $500 million shortfall for the 2012 fiscal year beginning July 1.
House Appropriations and Budget Committee Chairman Earl Sears said leaders aren't upset with public education.
“It wasn't that they fell out of favor,” said Sears, R-Bartlesville. “It's just at this particular time that their cuts were not as small as they have been in the previous years.” FULL ARTICLE
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Wed, May 11, 2011
by John Cox