claim: "when colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."
author: dan patrick
evidence_1: jul 12, 2017 ... “when colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest  item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars,” ...
evidence_2: jun 13, 2017 ... when colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest  item in the state budget – about 52 percent of all state dollars. health care is  second, accounting for most of the remaining dollars.
evidence_3: aug 15, 2016 ... years of cuts in state funding for public colleges and universities have driven up  ... of the states that have finalized their higher education budgets for the current ...  forty-six states — all except montana, north dakota, wisconsin, and ... in 2015,  state and local dollars constituted 54 percent of the funds these ...
evidence_4: jun 8, 2017 ... when colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest  item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars. ... the house  turned down over a half-billion dollars in additional school funding ...
evidence_5: jun 8, 2017 ... when colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest  item in the state budget – about 52 percent of all state dollars. health care is  second, accounting for most of the remaining dollars.