claim: says state budget deal between texas house and senate leaders "funds nursing homes, our public schools and universities and provides financial aid for college students."
author: joe straus
evidence_1: sep 1, 2017 ... leadership and coordination for the texas higher education system and to  promote access .... financial assistance to texas students enrolled at public  universities. the thecb ... to the thecb to offer bachelor's degree programs in  nursing, applied science, and ... percent of the total state all funds budget.
evidence_2: feb 9, 2018 ... two kentucky colleges win big in budget deal — full transcript of ... to be spent  on "student-centered programs that aid college completion ... bills to fund the  government for fiscal 2018 and eventually roll them into an omnibus measure. ...  leader mitch mcconnell's home state won out in the budget deal.
evidence_3: apr 10, 2017 ... suny and cuny students from families with incomes up to ... the pressure to  provide adequate budgets to public higher education. ... state residents, and  some of these colleges' leaders have feared a ... but she said that new york  state had also changed the free-tuition .... get our free daily newsletter.
evidence_4: this agenda exists whether the state's leaders choose to address it or not. ...  there's a reason why property taxes in texas are so high that the legislature ...  federal law requires texas to provide funding for medicaid patients in nursing  homes. .... students who graduate from high school after completing the college- bound ...
evidence_5: apr 25, 2018 ... the connecticut house of representatives gave final passage ... aid awarded  annually to students at the state's public colleges and universities. ... texas and  washington offer undocumented students tuition support, ... of the higher  education committee, said opening financial aid is the fair thing to do.