After Rauner Comments, Appropriations Committee Asks Administration to Outline Higher Education Plan
SPRINGFIELD, IL – The House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee will ask Gov. Bruce Rauner’s top education advisor to explain comments made recently by the governor contradicting his record of slashing higher education funding at a hearing on Thursday, March 23, at 8 a.m. in committee room D-1 in the Stratton Building.
On March 8, Rauner stated he planned to put more state resources into the state university system and help “expand their footprint” around the state. Committee members have invited Dr. Beth Purvis, Rauner’s secretary of education, to detail Rauner’s plan, and how these comments are consistent with the significant reductions to higher education funding contained in the governor’s budgets.
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House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee |
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Beth Purvis, Illinois Secretary of Education |
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Hearing on Rauner plan for higher education |
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Thursday, March 23 |
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8 a.m. |
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Stratton Building – committee room D-1 |
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401 S Spring St. |
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Springfield, Ill. |
