Capital budget cuts: trigger, unhappy - Greg Lucas, News Review

Gov. Jerry Brown will have no choice but to pull the $601 million trigger. There is at least a $601 million budgetary boulder of coal that will appear in the stockings of several branches of state government, including the University of California and the California State University system. That is the low end of the badness. Depending on how wrong the state’s revenue estimates are, another $1.9 billion in cuts—approved back in June—would fall on public schools, eliminating up to seven days of instructional time and ending the state’s $248 million contribution to paying for buses that haul kids to and from campus.