File this under unintended consequences.  Declining enrollments will make funding situations even worse.  Who could have predicted that? If it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger, right?  We shall see.   Source: Recession Realities in Higher Education: High schoolers, parents are wary of Illinois colleges as budget crisis hits schools – Dawn Rhodes, Chicago
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Don’t show this to Governor Bevin.  He’ll be asking us all to pay for the cuts out of our own salaries.  Hmmm, I wonder if he has been taking Trump’s plan to get the “Mexicans” to pay for the wall a bit too seriously. Doctors at Springfield’s Southern Illinois University School of Medicine will see
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From the man who lied from his first minute in office, we expect more? There has to be a modicum of good faith for negotiation to take place. Gov. Bevin has, to the amazement of all, already squandered his with strong arm tactics, intransigence and general bad faith.  The Herald-Leader op-ed is right.  Much could
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Lest our Kentucky legislators forget–there is a lot at stake. Too much to not try to come to terms over the budget and show the world we care for our own. Twenty something seconds of a sweet Kentucky spring rain. Make it matter.

Anna Baumann’s KY Policy Blog article goes deep into the short and long-term consequences of proposed cuts for P-12, higher education, Health and Family Services, and other areas not generally known. As she notes, both House and Senate budget represent a profound “disinvestment” in the people behind those human services. Please read the whole post,
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House and Senate representatives began at 5:08 p.m. Thursday to try to iron out differences between the two chambers on the state’s two-year, 21 billion spending plan. “I’d rather have a root canal and an enema on the same day, but not by the same person,” Senate President Robert Stivers said as he entered room
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Eleven states spend more money on correctional facilities than public research universities, and have cut education spending while raising prison budgets. Source: Report: 11 States Spend More On Prisons Than Education | The Edvocate

In Illinois and Pennsylvania, eight-month budget stalemates threaten the future of public higher education. Source: In Illinois and Pennsylvania, budget stalemates force colleges to cover their losses

Democrats won three of the four seats up for grabs on Tuesday, tightening their hold on the state House. Source: Ky. Gov. Matt Bevin stands by state budget cuts, despite Republi – WDRB 41 Louisville News

FRANKFORT, Ky. – It is highly unlikely that the Kentucky House’s version of the state budget will include any cuts in the current year to funding of state universities, House Speaker Greg Stumbo said Friday. Source: Greg Stumbo: No current year university cuts in Kentucky