GSPP student Jonathan Stein has written a piece for the Huffington Post entitled “The Most Important Vote for Higher Ed.”

Funding for the UC has dropped consistently over the last 25 years, during the rule of both Democratic and Republican governors, and with a variety of administrators at the helm of the UC. Students in California are finally awakening to the fact that it is not the political leadership of the state or the administrative leadership of the UC that should be the subject of their ire. California’s state governance is so fundamentally (and uniquely) screwy that we’re all set up to fail.

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The time has come for reform. In November, there should be at least one initiative on the ballot that would replace the 2/3rds requirement for passing a budget with a simple majority.