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Here's what MPR reporter Tim Post has on the higher-ed portion of the governor's announced state budget this morning. A 

fuller, more general story by MPR's Elizabeth Dunbar follows

Gov. Mark Dayton's budget cuts $171 million from the state's higher education budget.   Both the 

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

 system see a 6 percent cut in what they thought they'd get this year. The budget sheds some smaller grant programs for savings as well, but Dayton said the State Grant Program is protected from cuts.

Dayton's budgets cuts $18.2 million from smaller grants and programs administered by the state Office of Higher Education -- yet Office chief Sheila Wright said it still preserves grants for needy students.

(Meanwhile, MPR's Tom Scheck tweeted that House & Senate tax chairs said before the budget news conference that Dayton's tax plan won't get out of their respective committees.)

The forecast budget for higher ed was $2.92 billion.

Actual proposed budget for FY 2012-2013: $2.75 billion

Expenditure reductions total $171 million.

Alex Friedrich

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Here’s what MPR reporter Tim Post has on the higher-ed portion of the governor’s announced state budget this morning. A fuller, more general story by MPR’s Elizabeth Dunbar follows: Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget cuts $171 million from the state’s higher education budget. Both the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system see…

(Update) Gov. Dayton's budget cuts $171 million from higher ed

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