More than a quarter of a million students will be shut out of California’s community colleges because of state budget cuts, college leaders said Wednesday. The failure of statewide ballot propositions Tuesday means the 110-college system will face hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts in the next year. The cutbacks come at a time when the recession and unemployment have greatly increased demand for the two-year schools. The last time per-student funding dropped this low was 1982, said Scott Lay, president of the Community College League of California… The UC and California State University systems also are preparing for steep cuts.

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by Matt Krupnick, The Woodland Daily Democrat.

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