CSU OKs another fee hike for students, San Luis Obispo Tribune
Cal Poly undergraduate students will pay $158 more in quarterly tuition starting this fall, yielding to their third fee hike in the past 15 months.

Community welcomes its first kids' bookstore, San Diego Union-Tribune
R.E.A.D. Books was founded with $83,000 in seed money from San Diego State University and sells new books at discounts of 20 percent to 50 percent.

CSU raises tuition by 30 percent, Daily Bulletin
Fees have been increased twice in 7 months.

CSU increases student fees 30%, Monterey Herald
CSU-Monterey Bay's mission to educate low-income students will become harder next year now that the California State University system has raised its fees 30 percent.

Cal State trustees OK 30% fee hike, San Bernardino Sun
Cal State students will shell out about $500 more for school this fall after the university system's Board of Trustees approved a 30 percent increase in fees Wednesday for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Court's help eyed in budget impasse, Sacramento Bee
State Superintendent of Education Jack O'Connell plans to ask the California Supreme Court to intervene in the state's budget standoff and ease the way for tax increases to minimize school cuts, a spokesman said late Wednesday.

Davis says GOP skewered budget, Press-Enterprise
IMPASSE: The governor says "partisanship" has taken a human toll on state programs.

Official to Sue Over Budget Impasse, Los Angeles Times
California's superintendent of schools is expected to ask the state Supreme Court today to break the legislative impasse over how best to resolve a $38-billion budget gap because continued gridlock will threaten the education of 6 million schoolchildren.

Regents rebuff Connerly again, Sacramento Bee
UC refuses to ban funds for activities targeting specific minority groups.

NIH to meet on biolab, Sacramento Bee
Friends and foes of the plan will rally today as officials hold closed-door sessions at UCD.

Regents Uphold Funds for Ethnic, Gay Groups, Los Angeles Times
University of California regents on Wednesday turned down a proposal by fellow Regent Ward Connerly to cut funding and sponsorship for nonacademic events held for groups of a specific race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

California's Public-University Systems Take Steps to Raise Tuition by as Much as 30%, Chronicle of Higher Education
California's two public-university systems, which froze and then rolled back tuition by 10 percent during the economic boom of the late 1990s, took steps on Wednesday to increase their price tags for some 600,000 students by as much as 30 percent this fall.

Students angry at fee increases, Los Angeles Daily News
UC,USC systems to hike tuition 25%-30%.

UC, CSU ratify big fee hikes, Sacramento Bee
Students will be paying about 40% more than they did last fall.

State's university students facing new 25-30% fee increases this fall, San Francisco Chronicle
The 600,000 students attending California public universities will be socked with much higher fees when classes begin later this summer -- and in a surprising development, the University of California said Wednesday it will consider imposing an extra surcharge on rich kids' families.

UC, CSU student fees going up, San Diego Union-Tribune
Leaders of California's public universities voted yesterday to increase student fees by the largest amounts ever because of funding drop-offs stemming from the state's worst budget crisis in history.

UC fees to rise 25% or higher this year, Contra Costa Times
Students at the University of California and California State University will face huge fee increases when they return in the fall and may see additional fee hikes later this year if the state's fiscal crisis worsens.

Cal State, UC Back Steep Hikes in Fees, Los Angeles Times
Increases of 30% and 25% are biggest since the early 1990s and would affect 600,000 public university students in California.

When Data Don't Mean That One Way Is Best, New York Times
Too often in education, there is a rush to compare programs, schools or even entire reform movements that simply are not comparable.

Report: Nation has climb to meet teacher-quality requirement, CNN/AP
Nearly half of the nation's middle and high school teachers were not highly qualified to teach their topics in 2000, a report to Congress says.

Proud Fathers Cheer Women's Sports Movement, New York Times
Last week advocates were buoyed by the news that in the surprise opinion of the Bush administration, Title IX should not be punitive to men, but, more significantly, the main criteria for compliance need not be fixed.

College Leaders Discuss Ways of Preserving Affirmative Action, Chronicle of Higher Education
Race-neutral alternatives to affirmative action attracted little interest from the leaders of 48 colleges who met on Wednesday at Harvard University to discuss the fallout from last month's U.S. Supreme Court decisions dealing with race-conscious college admissions.

Alcohol industry girds for battle over report on teen drinking, San Luis Obispo Tribune
Even before its release, a report on teen drinking has drawn charges of bias from the $110 billion-a-year alcohol industry, an intense lobbying campaign, and congressional warnings not to interfere with the industry's marketing.

Editorial: Accreditation a milestone to build on, Salinas Californian
Tuesday's accreditation of California State University, Monterey Bay is a big step in the university's future.

Editorial: Timely Help for AmeriCorps, New York Times
Betraying his oft-repeated promise to expand opportunities for meaningful national service, President Bush has not lifted a finger to secure the extra money needed to avoid devastating cuts to AmeriCorps.

Editorial: Welcome the biolab, Sacramento Bee
Facility would do public, university good.

Daniel Weintraub: The lawsuit to stop the recall will probably fail, Sacramento Bee
Make no mistake about it: The lawsuit filed by Gov. Gray Davis' allies against the attempt to recall the governor is meant to slow the process and ensure that the inevitable election is held later rather than sooner.

Opinion: Raising college fees wouldn't be terrible, Ventura County Star
One response to California's budget crisis has been to consider raising fees at public universities, such as the $960 and $472 fee hikes now being considered for the University of California and California State University systems, respectively.

Opinion: Lowering two-thirds threshold to pass budget is a bad idea, Daily Breeze
If only, Democrats keep thinking as the state budget deadlock continues. If only we could pass a budget with a mere simple majority vote in the Legislature, we’d have no problems.

Letters: UC Money Pie Is Cut Into Too Many Slices, Los Angeles Times

Davis Calls Recall a Bid to Hijack Government, Los Angeles Times
As county registrars scrambled Wednesday to update their count of signatures on the petition for a gubernatorial recall election, Gov. Gray Davis accused his foes of illegally importing out-of-state workers to "hijack" California's government.

Recall Bid Likened to a Diagnosis of Cancer, Los Angeles Times
Sharon Davis notes the stress the effort causes but says life continues 'pretty normally.' She voices confidence the governor will prevail.