Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Brown's New Budget Proposal Has Educators Anxious - Rory Devine, NBC San Diego

Anxious -- That's how the mood was described Tuesday among students and leaders of community colleges in our San Diego and Imperial Counties, now that the Governor has laid out his revised budget providing more money for education, the next question is will the budget pass? And even if it does pass, how much will it mean to our community colleges? A glimmer of hope, is how they described the move by the Governor. "We still have a number of students concerned about the budget because of the current ambiguity of it," said Nick Serano, an official at Southwestern Community College Students and leaders of the nine community colleges in San Diego and Imperial Counties say they are already hurting from budget cuts over the last three years.