Iowa Board of Regents President Bruce Rastetter denied politics are behind a proposed new funding formula that would result in fewer dollars going to the University of Iowa and more money to the other two state schools. The legislature is being asked to approve the change that would allocated 60-percent of state dollars to U-I, Iowa State and U-N-I based on the number of in-state students on each campus. State Representative, Dave Jacoby, a Democrat from Coralville, believes it’s a political move against the University of Iowa because Johnson County is such a Democratic stronghold.

Rastetter says all three universities have received millions of dollars in recent years to upgrade facilities:

The Board of Regents is asking for 12 million dollars for the U-S to soften the blow of the funding change in the first year. Legislators say with a tight state budget it may be hard to get that appr