Stop the tuition increases
Higher education in California is under attack. The assault is coming from years of state budget cuts and public educators imposing hefty fee increases. No points for guessing the losers: current and future students, their bill-paying families, and the state’s economy. It’s time to call a stop to tuition raises. The increases have grown from a last-resort answer to weak finances to a nearly automatic feature that’s punishing students and derailing otherwise college-bound youth… One solution — and it won’t be an easy political sell — is higher state payments to both UC and CSU. Taxes are unpopular, but so is the fact that California lacks the educated workforce it will need to power the economy in years to come.
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by The Editors, The San Francisco Chronicle.