Editorial: Budget cuts 101, Press-Enterprise
California's public universities have accepted reality. There will be
no hairbreadth escape from this budget crisis. No soft landing.
Editorial: Fair higher ed fees,
Press-Enterprise
Gov. Schwarzenegger has proposed a rather modest 44 percent increase
in community college fees. Here's how it's modest: It would still leave
California students paying the lowest community college tuition in the
country. [Also ran in San Gabriel Valley Tribune.]
Editorial: UC's distracting chairman,
San Francisco Chronicle
At a time when the University of California should be focusing on the
impact of the most severe budget crisis in the state's history, UC Board
of Regents Chairman John Moores has been waging a bitter crusade against
the university's admissions policies.
Editorial: On Regents and Reality, Wall
St. Journal
Californians probably think racial preferences in college admissions
ended in 1996 when voters approved Proposition 209. But John Moores,
chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California, says
some UC administrators have been manipulating the system and defying
the law for the past eight years.
Editorial: Creating equity, Sacramento
Bee
As school districts face budget difficulties, more and more of them
rely on student and parent fund-raising. Poorer neighborhoods, of course,
are at a huge disadvantage.
Daniel Weintraub: Will Gov. Schwarzenegger agree to rate regulation?, Sacramento
Bee
As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrats in the Legislature try to
hammer out a compromise on workers' compensation in the days ahead,
one of the key issues will be whether the rates paid by California employers
should be regulated by the state.
Dan Walters: Odds for a deal on workers' comp improving as deadline
nears, Sacramento
Bee
The biggest guessing game in the Capitol these days - big in both political
and financial terms - is whether Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has
demanded workers' compensation reform on behalf of employers, will make
a deal with Democrats in time to forestall a multimillion-dollar ballot
measure shootout in November.
Editorial: No more deficits, San Diego Union-Tribune
State bond money must go to intended uses.
Editorial: Open debate on UC admissions,
Daily Breeze
What comes of the information and discussion that John Moores wants
-- and his University of California regents have said they want -- about
the UC admissions policy, no one can yet say. But Moores, chairman of
the Board of Regents, is absolutely right to request that the information
be adequately gathered and publicly disclosed and that the discussion
be publicly held.
Editorial: UC regents fail a test, North
County Times
The University of California Board of Regents needs to do some homework
on its own history. Regents voted 8-6 last week to rebuke their own
chairman for committing the horrifying act of writing an article for
Forbes magazine.
Letters to the Editor, San
Diego Union-Tribune
Mesa College handled situation appropriately.
Editorial: Do hate crimes only matter
if not a hoax?, Daily Bulletin
The Claremont Colleges were rocked last week by police allegations that
a reported hate crime on campus was actually a hoax.
