April 7, 2006

N.Y. Budget Plan Generous to Colleges

By SARA HEBEL

Republican and Democratic leaders in both chambers of the New York Legislature agreed last week to a budget plan that would give many higher-education programs and institutions their biggest increases in state aid in at least a decade.

If the budget plan is signed into law by Gov. George E. Pataki, a Republican who has not publicly indicated whether he would support the higher-education proposals, the state would appropriate 10.9 percent more in operating aid to the City University of

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