College cuts spark numbers dispute - MELINDA DESLATTE, AP

Louisiana’s higher education chief and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration are at odds over how to frame the depth of state budget cuts to public colleges, in a gloomy dispute that only five years of continued financial reductions can offer. Is the cut $625 million? $294 million? $419 million? How about $220 million? Depends on who you ask and how you look at the figures – and whether you want to make the impact of repeated budget slashing seem less damaging to the state’s public education system. http://www.tri-parishtimes.com/opinion/article_bdb961c0-6fb3-11e2-b38c-001a4bcf887a.html