Dunlap: CCs Being Left Behind

As the Legislature’s joint budget committee continues a week of hearings on education budgets, North Idaho College President Joe Dunlap told lawmakers this morning that state funding for NIC is now about the same as it was 12 years ago. “When factoring in an inflation factor, we’re actually receiving 32 percent less than what we received in 2002,” he told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee “The consequence is that the burden of funding has fallen on the backs of students and in-district taxpayers.” In the past two years, all new programs at NIC have been started with grant money or through reallocation of resources, he said/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

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