"The quality of our education has constantly been going down, and it’s frustrating to see that," said Sanchez, the 21-year-old president of the UC Students Assn. The state has been running billions of dollars in deficits, and the money to make it up has to come from somewhere. True enough, Sanchez said, but "are we seeking, hard enough, those alternate solutions?" The alternate solutions, however, all have lobbyists. He mentioned raising the vehicle license fee. Increasing that tax helped prompt Gray Davis’ 2003 recall; voiding that increase was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first act as Davis’ replacement. Raising it again seems a political non-starter.

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by Cathleen Decker, The Los Angeles Times.

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