About a dozen college students this afternoon ended a 96-mile, 60-hour journey to the Capitol steps.
They walked from Mankato to St. Paul (for the second time) to protest cuts in state aid to higher education.
Gov. Mark Dayton and a number of lawmakers, including House Higher Education committee Chairman Bud Nornes, met the group on the Capitol steps.
The House and Senate aim to cut higher-education funding by an additional $300 million this year, which would roll back state aid to Minnesota’s two largest university systems to pre-2000 levels. The shape of those cuts is being worked out in conference committee, which is scheduled to meet this afternoon.
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