The record $7.1 billion education budget approved in the Alabama Senate on April 30, 2019, contains at least 5 percent increases for the state’s public four-year universities, but a formula to get more money to under-funded institutions met with some concern. “I represent an institution that feels like they were not made whole in the budget,” Sen. Tom Whatley, R-Auburn, said in a budget committee meeting last week.
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