Cabrillo: Cramped classes, cuts for disabled and poor students
As fall enrollment reaches a new record, some of Cabrillo College’s 17,000-plus students are sitting on the floor or being turned away from packed classes.That’s because the college has cut at least 100 courses to address a 5 percent cut in its base budget. The $3 million loss in state funding agreed upon by lawmakers this spring dropped the 50-year-old college’s budget to $59 million at a time when out-of-work residents are seeking new vocational training. But what college officials hadn’t anticipated was that legislators in July would cut an additional $1.2 million for disabled and poor students, as well as programs geared toward keeping students on track to graduate or transfer to a University of California or California State University campus.
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by J. M. Brown, The San Jose Mercury News.