State lawmakers mostly targeted school funds to make up for a $650 million budget gap for FY 2009.
Capitol Media Services reports:
The move, approved by both the Republican-controlled House and Senate largely along party lines, comes within days of the state scheduled to pay $330 million in aid to public schools and $100 million to the state's three universities. The plan defers payment of the university aid and all but $30 million of the public school cash beyond July 1, an accounting tactic that moves the expense off the books of the current fiscal year and into the next.
Gov. Jan Brewer and the State Legislature had already cut K-12 funding by $133 million for FY 2009 in a budget signed into law on Jan. 31.
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