This program provides extra funds to school districts whose students score poorly on national standardized tests or whose students are disproportionately poor. The Higher Education Coordinating Board will allocate the remaining 500 students based on proposals by schools to provide added capacity in fields of study with high student demand. In the coming biennium, institutions will have a limited ability to set their own tuition rates. Increases need not be uniform across the institution. The value of the scholarship is pegged to two years tuition at the community colleges.
Scholarships go to any public or private institution in the state.
It also funds a 15 percent improvement in the ratio of case managers to home-care recipients. It also funds community protection and high-school transition. Natural Resources and Recreation A major issue during this legislative session was the listing of salmon under the Endangered Species Act. The initiative would destroy the plan behind Referendum 49 . With these investments slated to begin in the 1999-2001 biennium, transportation stands out as one of the major growth sections in the new budget.