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Article: Junior colleges getting shaft
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- August 26, 2002
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I thought your editorial in Tuesday's Opinion section, regarding
the need for more funding to our state's junior colleges, was
excellent in bringing to light our state Legislature's failure to
fund our community colleges.
Gov. Gray Davis, who campaigned to be California's educational
governor, has been a real disappointment, to say the very least,
regarding this issue.
Sacramento's willingness to balance the state budget at the
expense of our junior colleges is callous and unfair to students,
teachers and the businesses in our local communities that have come
to depend on an educated work force, which junior colleges provide.
Raising the per-credit fee a few dollars is a good start.
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