Legislators set cut to higher education budget 12.5 percent
CARSON CITY — The capstone of the state’s next two-year budget finally fell into place late Tuesday as lawmakers agreed to spend about $300 million more than Gov. Jim Gibbons had proposed on the state’s higher education system.
After several days of stalled negotiations, legislators reached accord on a plan to cut higher education by 12.5 percent from the level budgeted in 2007, rather than the 36 percent cut Gibbons had suggested.