[Excerpt] ... Making up for the cuts, universities will likely have to increase tuition rates. It’s not lost on those of us who have followed the budget debate this year that the legislature repealed a tuition increase cap they enacted just a year earlier specifically to allow bigger tuition hikes.
So, in order to protect a failed “march to zero” income tax policy, our students will either be priced out of a university education or saddled with additional debt.
Brownback also cut another $3 million from the Children’s Cabinet and delayed an additional $100 million in contributions to KPERS. $38 million was taken from KanCare – the state’s Medicaid program which serves the poor. ... [End of Excerpt]
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