Missouri House committee advances higher education funding changes as part of budget proposal

By: Rudi Keller

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: March 12, 2026

Words: 1,812

Last Updated: 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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The plan to completely overhaul the way Missouri funds higher education survived a committee vote Wednesday despite bipartisan misgivings about the impact on state colleges and universities.

And the House Budget Committee also backed Chairman Dirk Deaton’s proposal to cut almost $52 million from child care payments and abandon plans to change how those payments are made.

The two issues dominated the first two hours of the committee’s work Wednesday to prepare the …

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