Many students said they view the board’s action as a move toward privatizing programs while relieving the state of its responsibility to adequately fund public higher education. “It’s creating a two-tiered system of wealthier students who can afford classes and struggling working-class and low-income students competing for the scraps of what’s left; it’s definitely a move in the wrong direction,” said student government President Harrison Wills. Wills was among dozens of students who urged the seven-member Board of Trustees last weekto reject the plan. Only board Chairwoman Margaret Quinones-Perez and student trustee Joshua Scuteri, whose vote is advisory, opposed it. Trustee Louise Jaffe dismissed fears that the plan would shut out low-income students, arguing that they already are being driven to expensive for-profit institutions where they are amassing huge debt.

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by Carla Rivera, The Los Angeles Times.

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