How are community colleges affected differently from the CSU and UC system?
The governor entered a compact with state universities systems several years ago, basically, a set of agreements where the government cut the budget for them during 2005-6 in exchange for increasing their budgets and capping fee increases in future years—through 2010-11. Community colleges are separate, because they are under Prop 98. Prop 98 is a voter-approved ballot measure that sets aside 40 percent of the state budget for k-12 education and community colleges. Within that 40 percent, k-12 gets the bulk of money, and community colleges get their portion. Prop 98 did not specify the share that community colleges would get, but historically, they have tried to get 10-11 percent of the funding. One of the problems is that funding is inconsistent. How do these cuts affect your organization’s vision of expanding college opportunity to young people throughout the state? When we began the campaign in 2003, we were struck by the fact that California was 40th in the direct college-going rat
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