From textbooks to tenure. What the budget means for Kentucky schools, universities. - LINDA BLACKFORD, Herald-Leader

obert King, president of the Council on Postsecondary Education, said the 6.25 percent cut is a $55 million loss to the system overall. So the actual cut will end up being about $24 million. “It’s still a cut, but it’s a better result than we expected overall,” King said. Lawmakers did not restore a $500 million bond pool for fixing up old university buildings, estimated at $7 billion statewide. There was also mixed news for a host of programs initially cut in Bevin’s budget. For example, lawmakers found $1 million in one year for the University of Kentucky’s Robinson Scholars program and about $700,000 for the school’s mining engineering program. But there was no funding for the University Press of Kentucky, a publishing house based at UK that serves all the schools in the state. UK will also get $1 million over two years for an ovarian cancer screening program and will split $13.6 million over two years with the University of Louisville for cancer research. http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article207705929.html