Legislative Republicans on Monday proposed a seven-year freeze on tuition and fee increases at California’s public universities and community colleges to correspond with the length of tax increases under voter-approved Proposition 30… “It’s important to remind voters about Gov. Brown’s promises that passing Prop. 30 would prevent tuition and fee increases and that Republicans have stepped forward to provide the leadership necessary to guarantee those promises are kept,” said Tom Del Beccaro, chairman of the California Republican Party. The bills will probably end up being symbolic, given that Republicans will have difficulty putting bills through a Legislature with a Democratic supermajority.

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by Patrick McGreevy, The Los Angeles Times.

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