Proposed budget cuts would hit public education financing

BATON ROUGE - Lawmakers in the House will consider making $87 million in deeper cuts to state spending this year than Gov. John Bel Edwards proposes, more than half of that to public school financing.The proposal was approved with a 14-9 vote Wednesday by the Appropriations Committee and heads next to the full House for debate.The measure strikes at the governor's efforts to shield K-12 education from most cuts. Education officials say the plans could damage classroom instruction and jeopardize