Gov. Mary Fallin released a plan Wednesday to fill a $1.3 billion budget hole and avert major spending cuts that would disrupt the state's health care and educational systems.

The proposal calls for a 4.59 percent funding increase for the state Education Department, a 7 percent increase for the Health Care Authority, an 8.6 percent increase for the Human Services Department and a 7 percent increase for the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Department.

Most other agencies, including Higher Education, would see a 4.5 percent cut in funding.

If approved by the Legislature, this budget would avert what many in the education and health care systems say is a looming crisis, including mass closure of nursing homes, failure of rural hospitals, firing of more than a thousand teachers and imposition of a four-day school week in many

districts.