The state's taking on the major responsibility. It's the guarantor on public education. It funds higher education. He said assessed valuation of property is growing by some 9 percent a year and that the state should share in that revenue - possibly splitting it with local governments. But reallocating the new money, the growth.
Lawmakers begin work on how to either cut the budget or find more cash to maintain it today.
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