As they finished mark-up of the state budget late Thursday, members of the Senate Finance Committee approved some last-minute goodies for higher education in the Dallas area.
They found $5 million for the University of North Texas' law school in downtown Dallas, the same amount Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, managed to win for it last session.
They approved $4 million for research at the University of Texas at Dallas on brain development of middle schoolers. Last session, lawmakers directed $6 million of federal stimulus money to that effort.
And Senate budget writers approved a provision authorizing UNT to launch a college of pharmacy in Dallas, which has been under study since last session.
In a bad budget year, it was a pretty impressive take-home list for West and his fellow Dallas-area Finance panel members, Sens. Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, and Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound.
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/04/family-planning-battle-shifts.html
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