Editorial: What’s next for Berkeley and UC?

In the struggle between the governor and the University of California, it is Brown who is mostly in the wrong. He seems not to recognize that UC is the part of California’s public education system that works best… The public’s frustration with the wildly expensive cost of a college education — and what appears to them like a capricious system for admitting or rejecting applicants — is reaching fever pitch. Why can’t we have free college education for all, parents and students want to know, like so many countries in Europe have? …Brown will have to recognize that providing great university education costs money — and that the investment will repay the state and its residents in many ways.

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by The Editorial Board, The Los Angeles Times.

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