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Friday, May 17, 2013  Iowa lawmakers have reached a spending compromise for Iowa's public universities and other education programs.

Monday, May 06, 2013  Missouri lawmakers have until Friday to finalize the state's roughly $25 billion operating budget.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011  Despite unprecedented size, cuts in the shutdown-dodging budget pact may barely be noticed

Saturday, July 17, 2010  Congress is considering legislation that would offer $10 billion in grants to school districts to avoid teacher layoffs

Sunday, May 23, 2010  A new survey finds that 34 percent are considering eliminating summer school for the 2010-11 school year

Sunday, April 11, 2010  The largest item eliminated in the budget last week by the Senate Appropriations Committee was the Career Ladder program .

Saturday, March 20, 2010  Legislators will be working hard this week to finish balancing the budget and they hope to look to give schools as much money as promised.

Sunday, February 28, 2010  Missouri's budget troubles have opened divisions among public schools, which are jockeying over who should get cut.

Monday, May 11, 2009  Some people now say that agreement was unnecessary because state law and the recession would have created the same outcome.