Kimberlee Payton-Jones
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and lawmakers agree that the state’s public colleges and universities need increased funding, but they disagree on how the funding should be allocated. Gov. Nixon has allocated $120 million of the 2015 budget to the state’s institutions of higher learning. Nixon proposes that one-third of that be allocated as a “performance-based increase to the institutions' core budgets,” according to the Associated Press.
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