Assembly speaker says Cal State could get bigger funding boost
Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez… dangled the prospect that the Legislature might be willing to consider more than the $142.2-million boost that the governor has proposed for the university system in his 2014-15 spending plan… The governor countered that there continue to be “lots of interests, desires and claims” on state funding. “It’s challenging to grasp what is important and what is not so important,” Brown said. “I like the academic world, I like reading about what academics do, but there’s always a gap.” He also reiterated his continuing theme that technology, including online education, would ultimately yield savings for Cal State, the University of California and California community colleges. “It’s not going to happen soon and I don’t know in what form, but I can imagine students googling English 101,” Brown said.
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by Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.