Viewpoints: Brown spurs an adult discussion on the value of public education

Brown’s $1.4 billion in additional cuts will dramatically accelerate this process. To maintain the existing compromised quality by reducing enrollment would mean shrinking UC by 17 percent (36,000 students), CSU by 19 percent (65,000 students) and the community colleges by 10 percent (119,000 students). That’s like suspending admissions for a year… In 2010 we could have pushed the "reset" button on California’s entire higher education system and restored UC, CSU and the community college fees and per student funding to where it was in 2000

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by Stanton A. Glantz, The Sacramento Bee.

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