The right priorities? Reactions to Gov. Newsom's 2022-23 higher ed budget
The week, Gov. Gavin Newsom built on last year’s record state budget with a 2022-23 spending plan that tops it.
The week, Gov. Gavin Newsom built on last year’s record state budget with a 2022-23 spending plan that tops it.
The week, Gov. Gavin Newsom built on last year’s record state budget with a 2022-23 spending plan that tops it.
The week, Gov. Gavin Newsom built on last year’s record state budget with a 2022-23 spending plan that tops it.
Within the big numbers are programs, priorities and new commitments that will be shaped by the public’s response and debated through June in the Legislature. EdSource has asked observers, advocates, students and legislators to initiate the discussion with their first take on the governor’s budget for 2022-23.
Lack of affordable student housing in California — with recurring reports of college students having to couch surf or sleep in their cars — is not a new problem.
How to address it has also been an ongoing issue. Now some state lawmakers have proposed a bill to fund construction of housing at UC, CSU and community college campuses.
California has more eligible students for admission to the state’s public universities than those campuses have space for.
A new report released Wednesday by The Campaign for College Opportunity highlights that more eligible students are applying to the University of California and California State University campuses than those colleges can admit. The lack of capacity means that fewer qualified Latino and Black students are applying to these universities.
When Sonoo Thadaney-Israni and her husband signed the paperwork for their home in the hills above Silicon Valley in 1991, they were assured that the red flag in the fine print didn’t really matter.
The California community college system’s dramatic enrollment drop won’t have immediate financial consequences for the 116-college system — but it could be detrimental for part-time adjunct faculty.
After months of pandemic isolation, Kris Hotchkiss expected a celebratory return to campus for his senior year at UC Santa Barbara. Instead, he and hundreds of fellow students have found themselves hammered by another crisis: a major housing crunch.
The first time Danny Muñoz went to jail, he was only 14. He was in and out of the justice system for the next few decades, starting with minor offenses like fighting before moving on to more serious charges as an adult. In 2016, he survived being shot five times. It was a wake-up call.
The lower American River Parkway will receive about $12 million in state funding for significant public access improvements.
Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, secured the money in the state budget.
“In total this will be the largest investment ever for the lower Parkway as far as public access improvements,” McCarty said. “This is the jewel of Sacramento.”
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