Comments on: Schwarzenegger Proposes State Constitutional Amendment to Put Universities Ahead of Prisons

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Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:36:33 +0000

[...] organizations like the AFL-CIO are out agitating and engaging young members. Students and workers in California took on their Governor in the streets over education, and in other countries efforts like this one to organize young workers are proving [...]

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By: The Amendment Trap « Voting While Intoxicated

The Amendment Trap « Voting While Intoxicated — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:52:00 +0000

[...] Amendment Trap As far as I can tell, this seems like a really bad idea: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the state “can no longer afford to cut higher [...]

By: Tokyo.

Tokyo. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:10:04 +0000

This also doesn’t mean that the recent student fee increases will disappear, it means that the administrators of the UC and CSU and CC systems will still be entitled to expand their ‘non-teaching’ positions, while continuing to gut classes, teacher salaries, faculty appointments, continuing the privatization of public education despite the increased money supply. And now they can point to the student protests, say they were successful for increasing the education budget, and never claim any responsibility for the chaos they directly caused themselves and will continue to cause in handling the distribution of the budget now and into the future.