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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJerry Brown signs bill creating two tiered tuition, one without any state support
As the Republicans are desperately trying to commit political suicide in Washington, Democrats in California are trying desperately to keep destructive conservatives ideas alive.
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The measure sponsored by Assem. Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, would allow community colleges to make courses available between the traditional fall and spring semesters.
It does not provide additional state funding to pay for the extra classes. Instead, students would be charged the nonresident rate of $200 per unit, compared with $46 for state-subsidized credits during traditional semesters.
Several community college systems and student and faculty groups opposed the bill, saying it would put lower income students at a disadvantage.
http://www.news10.net/news/article/260136/2/Brown-signs-bill-for-pricier-community-college-classes
melody
(12,365 posts)He has resurrected our state -- just like he did the last time.
napi21
(45,806 posts)I usually agree with what Jerry Brown does, but I don't understand why he's doing this. Can you enlighten me please?
yurbud
(39,405 posts)administer the higher priced classes, which makes no sense since the school is perfectly capable of collecting money.
In this state level bill, they dropped the contractor part.
It's a great deal for legislators: they can say they are providing access to college without raising taxes on their rich donors and big businesses.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)they are the short periods between the regular academic year.
it is probably to help the institutions help their budgets during the regular year, without depriving anybody.
i'm not against this because it's pretty much impossible to take more than one class during these short sessions and the regular faculty often aren't teaching then.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)multiple jobs to survive, like me.
So for the instructors, this is actually a short term plus--potentially more work to go around.
But most of us understand what a struggle it is financially for most middle and working class to get through college, which outweighs the slight personal gain for us.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Regular semester courses stay the same?
These are offered during inter session?
yurbud
(39,405 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)this money from intercession would probably help the regular session and regular students more than it would harm them.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)and their families rather than raising taxes on the wealthy.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)but they have never been allowed to do it during regular session.
JI7
(89,262 posts)students while those who are well off would have no problem.
dchill
(38,517 posts)(A crazy fox.)
yurbud
(39,405 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)that's the whole rationale--the tax base isn't big enough to offer more classes, so we make the students pay for the additional ones.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)in the spring and fall -- at the lower rate.
So the idea is that if some students want to pay a premium to take these classes in between the regular terms, then it will help to alleviate crowding in the regular, low-cost classes in the fall and spring.
Are you sure that's not worth experimenting with, as the governor put it?