"You can’t make major cuts without reducing staff," Scott says. "You can’t save much money by not sweeping the floor as often." The colleges turned away 140,000 students during the last school year. It’s estimated twice that many are being shut out of classes this year. Brown’s funding cuts would deny courses for 350,000 more… College leaders worry about the fate of Brown’s proposed tax extension. "If it passes, we can quickly breathe a sigh of relief," says Daniel LaVista, chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District. "If it fails, Armageddon looks us in the eye. "I’m not one who rises to melodrama, but I can tell you this would be a different organization." Community colleges have always been the bedrock of quality public education in California, an indispensable building block of economic growth. But that bedrock has been eroding.

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by George Skelton, The Los Angeles Times.

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