The University of California has another option available to address these chronic funding problems. It could take the issue to voters with a ballot initiative that would give constitutional protection to some level of higher-ed funding. Guarantees are already in place for K-12 education and state prisons. Ballot-box budgeting has consequences, but no other state program has the same ability to grow the economy and restore our former stature in innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. An initiative appears to be the only option left to keep our public universities affordable for California’s battered middle class.

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by The Editors, The Bakersfield Californian.

Posted: September 15th, 2011, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.