Brown is proposing phasing out the scholarship entirely. Under his plan, only the students who have already received awards would be eligible for new money. Brown estimates that by the 2020 budget year, the phase-out would reduce costs to the state’s general fund by nearly $116 million. During Rendon’s response Tuesday afternoon to Brown’s budget proposal, the Democrat from Paramount singled out the Middle Class Scholarship as a program he wants to protect.

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by Melanie Mason, The Los Angeles Times.

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