The state budget could be a useful math lesson for community college students – but only those left after cuts reduce seats in the classroom.
Monterey Peninsula College has lost 1,440 state-funded slots for full-time students since the 2008-09 school year. Based on the state’s reimbursement formula, which allots up to $4,564 per student, that equals a $4.5 million loss.
And if voters reject Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax proposal, Proposition 30, they’ll shave another $338 million from community colleges statewide.
“This is the state’s attempt to ration access,” says Stephen Ma, MPC’s vice president of administrative services. “They’re basically saying, ‘We’re not going to cut your funding per student,’ because then they’d be asking us to do more with less, and that’s an impossible situation.”
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