Legislative subcommittees begin cutting millions to education and corrections

Over Democrats’ objections, legislative appropriations subcommittees have begun making millions of dollars of preliminary budget cuts to higher education, K-12 schools, corrections and other spending areas.

Republican budget leaders had announced plans to make these cuts as the starting point for the joint House-Senate Appropriations subcommittees as they begin their work of setting initial budgets for state government agencies.

By CHARLES S. JOHNSON Daily Chronicle Staff Writer

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