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Budget Negotiations Continue As Deadline Looms

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Michigan lawmakers are working to pass the final pieces of the 2012-13 budget, although differences are still being worked out between the House and Senate on funding for universities and public schools.

If the budget is finished Thursday as planned, the Legislature will meet its goal of passing a budget by June 1 for the second year in a row.

A House-Senate conference committee is expected to reach a compromise on the K-12 budget soon.

Republicans control the House and Senate, but the two chambers are having trouble reaching an agreement on kindergarten funding.

Differences on the higher education budget include whether Michigan State University must give up its requirement that all students get health care coverage and whether the University of Michigan must report more on stem cell research.

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