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College Board funding off base

If the state College Board would drop its Abbott-and-Costello approach to budgeting,...

...So, who's on first? It's the executive office of the board of trustees and "designated institutes, laboratories and programs" all funded through what is known as the appropriation for "general support-consolidated-subsidiary."

In 2002, $13,970,207 state General Fund dollars were separately appropriated for subsidiary support.

The $23,111,181 appropriated in 2006 amounts to a whopping 65 percent increase in just four years with no associated increase in the return on this investment....