Inside Higher Ed: Potential Boon for California Higher Ed
California’s public colleges have had a brutal couple of years. It’d be ridiculously premature to say that things are turning around — but Wednesday brought them at the very least a symbolic boost, in the form of a proposal that could lead to more of what they really want: a greater share of state funds.
In a State of the State speech that elevated education, and higher education in particular, above some competing state priorities, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed amending the state’s Constitution to ensure that the state’s two major public university systems receive no less than 10 percent of the state’s operating funds each year. The additional funds would come by cutting spiraling state spending on prisons, the governor said.
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