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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">The most recent edition of the legislative news!
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<p class="MsoNormal">A new edition of Legislative News for the 2017 session has been posted<span style="color:#1F497D">…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt">Community and technical college system leaders this week testified on behalf a 2017-19 operating budget plan passed by House Democrats and a proposal to increase full-time faculty positions at
colleges. Both proposals won praise from the system as the Legislature moves forward to its next week of session.
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