January 6, 2006

Outlook for Higher Education in the 50 State Legislatures

By KARIN FISCHER

LOUISIANA

Dates of session

March 27 to June 19

Budget request

  • Unknown. College officials say they have not even begun to work on spending requests for the 2006-7 fiscal year, partly because their current budget remains so up in the air. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a Democrat, is expected to call the Legislature into a second hurricane-related special session in January, before the start of its regularly scheduled session. Public colleges have already

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