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Technical colleges ask legislature to restore $10.5M operating grant, push apprenticeship funding
Summary
Representatives of Kansas' seven technical colleges told the House Higher Education Budget Committee the technical-college model requires tiered funding for equipment and instruction; they asked lawmakers to restore a $10.5 million operating grant and to support business-and-industry apprenticeship funding.
Dr. Gregory Nichols, appearing for Kansas’ seven technical colleges, told the House Higher Education Budget Committee that technical programs are costlier to deliver and that tiered funding exists to reflect higher equipment and instruction costs for shop- and lab-based courses.
Nichols described the technical-college operating grant as a stabilization tool and asked the committee to restore the grant to the FY25 level…
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