Thursday, May 20, 2021

Huge budget boost to UC, CSU and community colleges targets student housing and job training - Teresa Watanabe & Howard Blume, LA Times

 

Gov. Newsom also is proposing $115 million in one-time funding for community colleges to eliminate textbook costs by developing free and open educational resources and certificate and degree programs that don’t incur those expenses. He blasted the textbook industry as a “racket” that profits “on the backs of our children” in his remarks Friday

.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-14/uc-cal-state-community-colleges-get-historic-budget-hike