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Jindal to Cut $219 Million From Louisiana Colleges

March 11, 2009 RSS Feed Print

Louisiana's public colleges are expecting a total of $219 million in budget cuts next fiscal year, a figure that would be twice as high without federal stimulus money, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. Gov. Bobby Jindal is expected to formally announce this plan Friday to the state Legislature.

The Louisiana State System will likely be forced to absorb $100 million in cuts, while the system's flagship campus in Baton Rouge could have $35 million slashed from its budget, a prospect particularly frustrating for a school that has been competing better academically with its regional peers. "The cut will likely cause us to fall back to where we were eight or 10 years ago," Chancellor Michael Martin told the Daily Reveille , the student paper. "This kind of cut—20 percent—would be a major setback for LSU."

Higher education officials have asked the state to approve a 5 percent tuition increase to help mitigate effects of the cuts.

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What tax cuts am I getting from YO bama. I have added taxes to pay from now on because of him. He decided to tax my medical insurance as income so Me and everyone else with medical insurance through their company will pay more taxes. Another tax increase, state taxes come out irst so Obama decided to reevaluate the federal taxes before state tax deductions and sent me a 1099 saying my state taxes coming out saved me on federal taxes and I must pay taxes on that as income. You people that se Obama giving tax cuts, Tell me what they are. I am a single father of a Thre year old and have a non increasing salary and more taxes now.

mike of LA 12:37AM February 01, 2011

DON'T YOU GUYS KNOW THAT JINDIL WILL DO WHAT EVER HE WANTS AND THE OTHERS WILL TAKE EVERYTHING PEOPLE HAVE WORKED FOR ALL THEIR LIVES. TO ME I DON'T THINK IT MATTERS ANYMORE WHAT WE THE PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT OR THINK ABOUT IT. THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT. THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER, IT SEEMS TO ME. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT WHAT THEY CAN DO TO PUT IN THEIR POCKETS. THATS WHY I DON'T VOTE ANYMORE. JUST WHEN YOU THINK OK HERE'S ONE THAT IS GOING TO DO US SOME GOOD. THEN HE CAUSES ALOT OF PROBLEMS. WELL I'M HERE TO SAY, THEY ARE ALL FULL OF DOO DOO. ALL THE ELECTION IS, IS FOR PEOPLE TO SEE WHO CAN TELL THE BEST LIE. WHEN THEY ARE RUNNING, THEY LIE TO US ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO TO CREATE A BETTER LOUISIANA. JUST ONCE, HAS ANY ONE EVER DID ANYTHING THEY ACTUALLY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO EVEN AFTER THEY TOOK OFFICE?? CAUSE I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT SO. THEY ALL ARE GREEDY. THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU OR ME OR THIS STATE. THE ONLY THING THEY CARE ABOUT IS MONEY IN THEIR POCKET. BUT YOU SEE, JUST AROUND THE CORNER OUR FATHER JESUS IS COMING. BUT BEFORE HE COMES, THERE'S GOING TO BE A TIME WHERE MONEY IS NOTHING. THATS WHEN THE ANTICHRIST IS HERE. I DO BELIEVE THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE IN THE GOVERNMENT. CALL ME CRAZY IF YOU WANT. BUT WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS WHAT THE HELL DO THE SENATE PLAN TO DO WHEN MONEY IS NO GOOD. THEY WILL HAVE IT, BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BUY NOT A THING WITH IT.

DAISY of LA 2:02AM May 31, 2009

He guys before you throw Jindal under the bus and start with all the how you hate republican talking points. You might want to take a look at the way the state funding is appr. State Funding to Schools is not a fixed items in the budget other items have fixed values, so it's one of the few place it can be cut due to the law. Jindal is proposing an admen, to prevent this. He has to play by the laws on the books.
Nice try though
You guys should study the law a little more.

Bayoustateforme of LA 4:59PM April 24, 2009

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