Budgets

As part of the budget, the committee also approved a financing plan that will completely change the way community colleges are funded. Under the Senate plan, each school would get a set amount of base funding. Then additional money would be allocated based on two metrics: contact time and student success.

Virtually all nonexempt, nondefense discretionary programs are subject to an across-the-board cut of 5 percent in the current fiscal year (FY 2013) and nonexempt, nondefense mandatory programs are subject to a cut of 5.1 percent, the American Association of Community Colleges reports. These cuts, the AACC points out, will impact nearly every federal program that touches community colleges this year, except Pell grants.