California Legislature Wants a Say in Public University Budgets

By Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times

In a plan released during his gubernatorial campaign, Brown wrote that the state’s fiscal crisis calls for a “major overhaul of many components of the postsecondary system” and pledged to gather education stakeholders to draft a new master plan for it.

This week, Brown, a UC Berkeley graduate, declined through a spokesman to comment on specific legislation or the concept of more legislative oversight.

In addition to Yee’s measures, Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) reintroduced a bill that did not pass the Legislature and would create new benchmarks to measure the performance of public university systems and the state’s community colleges.

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[ Source: Los Angeles Times ]