California’s 50-year-old "Master Plan for Higher Education" is not broken — in fact, nations such as China and Singapore are trying to replicate it. But it is in peril because of inadequate funding, college administrators testified Monday morning in Sacramento. Rather than dismantling the state’s three-tiered college system due to current financial stresses, legislators should strengthen it to build a better-educated work force for the future, college leaders said. The public hearing, organized by Assemblyman Ira Ruskin, D-Redwood City, is the first of several meetings sponsored by the Joint Committee for Review of the Master Plan of Higher Education.

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by Lisa M. Krieger and Denis C. Theriault, The San Jose Mercury News.

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