Reply #3: Lack of funding [View All]

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State colleges and universities are subsidized out of the state's general fund or money earmarked for education. When revenues are down (and California's revenues are way down), the money for education has to be made up somewhere, and the students are the handiest, easiest target. But at least vehicle registration fees didn't go up like Gray Davis proposed. And no new taxes were imposed on Californians thanks to the minority Republicans in the lege.