Tuesday, May 25. I’m Maria L. La Ganga.
It’s a difficult balance, and California parents say it’s been out of whack for years. Their tax money goes to support the University of California, the nation’s premier public research university system. But most of their accomplished kids can’t get in, because equally accomplished kids from other states and countries want to learn there too.
Now, the state Senate has unveiled a plan to cut enrollment for non-California freshmen nearly in half over the next decade, starting in 2022, writes my colleague Teresa Watanabe. Three state records fuel the proposal.