State Journal: High School Fixation?; 'Jock' vs. English Major

The recession and resulting budget cuts are adding to the perennial tensions between elementary and secondary and higher-education interests over state funding.

Although K-12 education has had to endure level or declining funding in many states over the past year, the public schools have largely escaped the severe cutbacks that have hit state-supported postsecondary institutions across the country.

The frustrations felt by New York State higher educators came to boil at a Senate hearing this month, where spokesmen blasted the legislature's decision this year to slightly increase local school aid...