California’s public universities are getting ready to raise tuition and cut staff, while students are bracing for the potential impact on their schooling, should voters reject a tax increase on November’s ballot… A poll released Wednesday showed fewer than half of California’s likely voters support Prop. 30. Among those polled, 48% said they would support the measure, 44% said they would oppose it, and 8% said they are undecided, according to the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan think tank in San Francisco. That was a lower level of support than in September, when the institute first ran Prop. 30 by voters. Dan Newman, a spokesman for the Yes on 30 campaign, said the group’s internal polls show it is ahead, but in a very tight race.

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by Jim Carlton, The Wall Street Journal.

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