Take Back CA Education

California's public education system has accumulated several problems over the years, ranging from budget cuts to skyrocketing tuition, and recently the controversy over UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi. Take Back CA Education is here to spread awareness of these problems.

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“If the federal government were to invest $18 billion a year, with a dollar-for-dollar match from state governments, we would slash college tuition in the United States by more than half....If we were to reduce the president’s proposed increase in military spending by less than half, and instead invest that money in educational opportunities for today’s college students, we could cut tuition by 55 percent. So I challenge all of you; ask yourselves, where should our priorities lie?”

Bernie Sanders

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With the number of UC applicants at a new high, California residents faced tougher odds of gaining acceptance into next fall's freshman classes. A record number of students from other countries and states, meanwhile, received offers of admission.

UC's have been steadily accepting more foreign students over California residents because they pay more tuition. Why are public institutions becoming  business oriented? Supposedly this extra money will be used to “help the schools”, but if that were true, then why are there so many budget cuts?

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Why Student Loan Debt Harms Low-Income Students the Most - Talk Poverty

Four years ago, student loan debt in America topped $1 trillion. Today, it's even worse.

A dream of higher education should not be a sentence to years—or an entire lifetime—of poverty.

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UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi has spoken with pride about her family’s involvement with the university. Now UC President Janet Napolitano considers them a potential liability.

I’m surprised that this isn’t being discussed more. UC Davis Chancellor Katehi has not only spent $175,000 on concealing the Pepper Spray incident, not only been caught on the board of a textbook company, but she has also clearly been involved with nepotism by hiring her son and daughter-in-law and giving them substantial raises in less than two years. She needs to step down.

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#TakeBackYourTuition UC Davis students march into Mrak Hall today on the 3rd year anniversary of the infamous pepper spray event in protest of the 5% tuition hike proposal.

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Bernie wants free tuition!

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Thinking about working in the tech industry? Find out from which schools tech companies are hiring.

Source: College Transitions

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So many California schools!

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Read the Master Plan here!

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The two governing boards reaffirm the long established principle that state colleges and the University of California shall be tuition free to all residents of the state

California Master Plan for Higher Education, 1960

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“Indentured servitude”

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By the time Reagan was elected to the nation’s highest office a decade and a half later, these powers had devised perfect tools to make sure the spirit of 1960s protest would never again erupt on campus. During Reagan’s two terms as president, dedicated funding for outright grants-in-aid decreased, federal guidelines pushed individual loans, and private bill collectors were brought in to ensure that the hardest kind of debt to escape was whatever you took on for your education. Even more important was the shift in tone and expectation. Public goods became private services, and by the end of the 1980s, the anti-tax, infra-structure-starving, neoliberal Weltanschauung meant that as states cut their budgets, support for higher education was thrown into a cage match with every other necessary public good.

Peter Lunenfeld, "Ronald Reagan stuck it to millennials: A college debt history lesson no one tells”