Perhaps the most welcome idea in the address, though, was Schwarzenegger’s renewed commitment to education — in particular, the state’s colleges and universities. "If you have two states and one spends more on educating and the other one spends more on incarcerating, in which state’s economy would you invest?" he argued. He made a radical proposal to remedy that budgeting inequity: a constitutional amendment to guarantee that no less than 10 percent of the budget go to higher education and no more than 7 percent go to prisons.

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by The Editors, The San Jose Mercury News.

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