Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today's budget-setting decisions for public schools for next year, the biggest single slice of the state's budget pie. It's all rolled up now into a single bill, which still needs House and Senate approval and the governor's signature to become law, but budgets rarely are changed after they're set by the joint committee. No school budget has been defeated in the House or Senate in at least the past two decades.

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