This fall, California’s public institutions of higher education should be embracing the state’s largest high school graduating class. Instead, significant numbers of qualified students may be denied access because of the state’s $17.2 billion budget deficit and cuts in state support for higher education… We recognize and appreciate that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s revised budget for 2008-09 restores a portion of the drastic cuts proposed in January. Yet it still falls far short of meeting the needs of education at all levels.

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by George R. Blumenthal, Martha J. Kanterand and Don W. Kassing, The San Jose Mercury News.

Posted: May 25th, 2008, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.