Brown: No State Funding Increase If UC Raises Tuition
In November, the UC Board of Regents – at Napolitano’s urging – voted to increase tuition by five percent for each of the next five school years unless the governor and state lawmakers give the UC an additional $100 million each year. But Brown is holding firm to his terms from 2012, when he promised both the UC and California State University state funding increases of four-to-five percent for four consecutive years – as long as both systems froze tuition. Capitol sources familiar with the governor’s budget proposal – to be released Friday morning – tell Capital Public Radio that the governor will propose four percent funding increases for the UC and CSU as long as they do not increase tuition. That equates to additional funds of just under $120 million.
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by Ben Adler, Capital Public Radio.