Missouri House panel advances two-tier budget plan - DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press

A Missouri House panel forged ahead with a budget plan Wednesday that would make education funding partly dependent on the strength of the economy and bar colleges from offering cheaper resident tuition rates to students living in the U.S. illegally. The plan approved by the House Budget Committee takes a two-tiered approach, not typically used in Missouri, to fund hundreds of public school districts and dozens of state colleges and universities. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Missouri-House-panel-advances-two-tier-budget-plan-5312184.php