July 13, 2001

Court Reduces Size of Cuts to Alabama Colleges

By ANA MARIE COX

The Supreme Court of Alabama ruled late last month that a state budget cut must be spread evenly among the state's public-school systems and public colleges when state tax collections fall below expectations. The ruling significantly reduces the size of budget cuts facing the state's colleges this year.

In February, Gov. Don Siegelman, a Democrat, ordered midyear budget cuts of 6.2 percent to all levels of public education, but that ruling was challenged in court, and a state judge

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