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1997 Higher Ed. Stories

• 5/ 1/1997: Radio Story - The Senate votes to give tax breaks for parents sending their children to private schools.
• 5/ 1/1997: Newspaper Story - The Missouri Senate passed its version of a tax reduction plan--money for students to attend private/church schools.
• 4/29/1997: Newspaper Story - House Budget Committee approves two new prisons after lobbying by the governor.
• 4/29/1997: Radio Story - Missouri lawmakers and education lobbyists reached a compromise. A bill that would build two new maximum security prisons and give money to University of Missouri systems for renovations passed in the House Budget committee.
• 4/21/1997: Newspaper Story - A House and Senate conference committee approved an additional $1.4 million for the U.M. system
• 4/17/1997: Newspaper Story - Gov. Mel Carnahan and legislators split on whether to build one or two new prisons. The U.M. system wants some building money also.
• 4/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - Missourians would have more access to issues concerning to MU system under a bill that would require open sessions for certain counceling committees.
• 4/ 7/1997: Radio Story - Lawmakers want to ban state funding of human cloning research.
• 4/ 3/1997: Newspaper Story - The House votes to put a faculty member on MU's Board of Curators.
• 3/19/1997: Radio Story - Proposed legislation would require bi-partisan representation in tax-payer supported research facilities
• 3/ 5/1997: Radio Story - The Senate Education Committee hears the governor's proposed "Challenge Scholarship" proposal.
• 2/26/1997: Newspaper Story - Legislators hear testimoney on bill to require college faculty to pass English fluency tests.
• 2/20/1997: Newspaper Story - The House majority leader eases her proposal to give lawmakers more power over MU's budget.
• 2/17/1997: Radio Story - House Higher Education Committee voted to begin debate on governor's scholarship program.
• 2/ 9/1997: Newspaper Story - MU lobbying tactic draws fire from top legislative leader.
• 1/30/1997: Newspaper Story - Senate confirms three new members to MU's Board of Curators.
• 1/29/1997: Newspaper Story - Senate confirms MU curators.
• 1/22/1997: Newspaper Story - MU would get the smallest budget boost of any university under the governor's plan.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - Carnahan meets with students immediately after his innauguration.
• 1/13/1997: Radio Story - Gov. Carnahan's inaugural address makes educating Missouri's youth his top priority.
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - The governor's inauguration speech and reaction
• 1/13/1997: Newspaper Story - Carnahan meets with students as his first act of his second term as governor.