December 15, 2006
State Funds for Colleges Continue to Rebound
Most budgets robustly beat inflation; financial climate called best in 6 years
A new national survey shows that state spending on higher education is continuing to rise throughout most of the nation and growing faster than kudzu in much of the South.
Total state general-fund appropriations for higher education are up by 7 percent, to $72.18-billion, in the current 2006-7 fiscal year, according to an annual survey conducted by the Center for the Study of Education Policy, at
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