Missouri Senate panel boosts higher education funding

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Senate budget writers agreed Tuesday to boost Missouri's overall higher education funding, but some of the most contentious spending issues -- including how to deal with soaring Medicaid costs and whether to cut the budget for the University of Missouri -- remain unresolved.

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