Gavin Newsom suggests challenging Jerry Brown's UC cuts
In his first remarks at a University of California Board of Regents meeting this morning, Lt. Gov. and Regent Gavin Newsom proposed challenging half a billion dollars in cuts to the UC system proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Newsom said the regents shouldn’t automatically accept the cuts and said, "I’m not convinced we’re going to lose that half a billion dollars." … "I sit here bewildered by the state not of only our state but the state of our UC system," Newsom said. "I didn’t come here to fail more efficiently."
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by Jack Chang, The Sacramento Bee.