Teach-ins on Tuesday and Thursday at Sacramento State will try to give students and professors hope for the future, Canton said. For the faculty union, that hope lies in Assembly Bill 656. The bill is sponsored by the California Faculty Association, the union that represents CSU professors and librarians. It calls for taxing oil and natural gas drawn from California soil or waters and devoting the money to CSU, UC and community colleges. It would raise $1 billion a year, with the majority of the money going to CSU, said the bill’s author, Alberto Torrico, D-Fremont.

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by Laurel Rosenhall, The Sacramento Bee.

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