DREAMs and CA Budget Cuts

AIA-FL Blog ^ | February 2, 2010 | Bethany Stotts

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DREAMs and CA Budget Cuts

Bethany Stotts, February 2, 2010

The budget cuts—and tuition hikes—in University of California system have been hard on students there, prompting student protests and the mantra, “get more, pay less.”

“We’re paying more and getting less,” Associated Press reporter Donna Gordon Blankenship quotes student “Steve Dixon, a Humboldt State University senior who heads the California State Students Association” in her February 1 article on tuition hikes across the country.

According to Blankenship, “At the University of California, which has 10 campuses and about 220,000 students, in-state undergraduate fees in fall 2010 are set to reach $10,302 — 32 percent more than in fall 2009 and three times what California residents paid 10 years ago.”

“But at California State University, the nation’s largest public university system with 23 campuses and 450,000 students, resident undergraduate fees rose 32 percent from fall 2008 to fall 2009 to $4,026, which is nearly three times what students paid 10 years ago,” she writes.

“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal for 2010-2011 assumes that the system will raise fees another 10 percent in the coming academic year.”

With these tuition hikes, California students and their families are rightly concerned about how to pay their bills....

[HenpeckedCon]

Does Kalifornia have free “in state” tuition for illegal aliens?

[tflabo]

prompting student protests and the mantra, “get more, pay less.”

I think the author botched this up in reverse! Don't they edit their work? Probably not!

[absalom01]

Yup. Sure do.