RESOURCES FOR
TEACH-IN MARCH 4TH DAY OF ACTION
California's prison budget is now greater than the Budget for Higher ed:
according to:
California Legislative Analyst's Office:
latimes.com
Michael Hiltzik
December 10th,
2009 Why Privatizing the University of California won’t work.
State funding;
"We have half the money we had in 1990 on an inflation-adjusted basis,"
University of California President Mark Yudof, said in his appeal to legislators
in Sacramento this week.
latimes.com Opinion
Tim Rutten
December 5, 2009:Abandoning
California's commitment to education
Budget cuts have left the state's once-proud higher education system in
shambles.
February 1, 2010: California in Crisis: With a dysfunctional state government unable to act, the universities,
schools, and roads that were once the model for the nation are crumbling -- if not collapsing.
LA TIMES: Not her mother's UC
January 13, 2010
Budget cuts mean my freshman daughter's experience at UC Santa Barbara is far from the system's glory days.
SD UT: Parents, students on edge over soaring tuition
Monday, February 1, 2010
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP, Associated Press Writer
AP Poll:
Californians worry about cuts to higher ed
November 11, 2009
La Times:
UC applications up;
transfer interest especially strong
January 14, 2010
latimes.com
By Larry Gordon
January 21, 2010
Waiting lists to be established at most UC campuses, regents say.
The lists will give the university more flexibility to remain within enrollment
targets in the face of fiscal uncertainty.
latimes.com
By Larry Gordon
January 20, 2010
'Desperate' UC students scurry to snag key classes
Some courses have hundreds wait-listed as the new term begins.
Many students fear they won't get the classes needed to graduate on time -- and
with higher fees, may not be able to afford an extra year.
New America Media, News Analysis
Henry Der
December 8, 2009:
New UC Admissions Policy Would Hurt AfricanAmericans, Asians
American Prospect:
The Graduation Gap
Christopher Jencks |
October 26, 2009
America needs to do a much better
job of increasing its college enrollment and graduation rates, especially for
less advantaged students.
Christopher Jencks is one of the country’s most important
sociologists of education. He is currently at the Kennedy School at Harvard.
CCTE(California Council on Teacher Education) finds the federal policy directions of NCLB and RTTT (Race To The Top) to be detrimental to students, teachers, schools, and the future of public education in the United States. We call upon the Obama Administration to rethink national education policy to bring it into line with the President’s promises of an America that is open and available to all, and that allows and encourages creativity, individualism, and success for all students, all teachers, and all schools.
Also, you might emphasize that we are now spending more in California on the Prison budget than we are on Higher Education and that California now has the third largest prison population in the world!
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