"CARSON CITY, Nev. – Nevada public schools and the higher education system receive the bulk of state general fund money and should share in any new rounds of budget cut pain, Gov. Jim Gibbons said.
'We want to protect education as much as we can,' Gibbons said Tuesday in a letter to state workers, 'however, we cannot continue to take virtually all of the budget cuts out of the remaining 46 percent of the state budget that funds the other state agencies.
'We must strike a balance to preserve as many jobs as possible, both in education and in state government,' he wrote.
The letter was a response to suggestions his office sought and received from state employees on how to deal with Nevada's growing budget deficit."