Comments on: How Gov. Brown could ace Napolitano on U.C. tuition

By: U.c. Tuition |

U.c. Tuition | — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:00:39 +0000

[…] How Gov. Brown could ace Napolitano … – As Chris Reed noted last week, U.C. President Janet Napolitano has another thing coming if she thinks she can push a huge U.C. tuition hike past Gov. Jerry … […]

By: Phillip Moya

Phillip Moya — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:52:04 +0000

OK I am just one voter weighing in. I don’t go to an University although I do have a niece attending one. After reading the article I am at a loss why 4% isn’t enough. Considering the inflation rate for the last 12 months was 1.7. I realize it’s important to have highly paid faculty to attract top notch educators. My concern, can our state sustain this runaway expense. After looking at the graph, why can’t Nappolidano cut back on administration? Minimum wage earners would love a 9% raise and so would I being on social security. The truth is that’s not going to happen. Maybe we need to change the formula for retirement. I mean retiring at 60 with 75% of their final pay seems expensive. Adding a year or two would help the system greatly. I’m sure these professionals don’t quit teaching at 60. Look we have 2,100 retires collecting 6 figures in pensions in 2011. If we can cut that slightly we could save tremendous amounts of money. With everybody making cuts it seems to me a 9% raise is ludicrous.

By: skippingdog

skippingdog — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:00:17 +0000

In reply to John Seiler. Aren't you a reporter, John? Livermore is even located inside California, so it shouldn't be too large a stretch for you to make your own confirmation calls. In addition to the national laboratories, UC operates several large hospitals in conjunction with their medical schools. Each of those facilities has thousands of non-faculty healthcare workers who are UC employees.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:39:27 +0000

No one ‘aces’ Sistah Sledge. The gentle seminarian better watch his back.

By: John Seiler

John Seiler — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:08:40 +0000

In reply to SkippingDog. Numbers, please? And do those at two "National Laboratories" get federal compensation, not state?

By: Dawn Urbanek

Dawn Urbanek — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:05:56 +0000

Governor Browns new State Education Funding Law- The Local Control Funding Formula intentionally underfunds education so that money can be spent on other things like High Speed Rail- Driver Licenses For Illegal Immigrants, to add a 14th year to an already underfunded public education system and most egregiously to appeal the teacher tenure law. I would like to thank the UC system for bringing up the tuition hikes because it will bring the discussion of inadequate funding to the table. Unless the Base Funding Grant is increased to an amount that provides every student with an “adequate” education the new law is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment because it deprives every student living in a wealthy suburban school district of an adequate education irrespective of their personal income, race or ethnicity. The law discriminates based on wealth.

For a Parents Perspective on the Local Control Funding Formula see:
http://disclosurecusd.blogspot.com/2014/11/re-research-brief-toward-grand-vision.html

For an example of why there is no accountability under the new law see:
http://disclosurecusd.blogspot.com/2014/11/capistrano-unified-school-district.html

Sadly Jerry Brown is single handedly destroying California’s Public Education system – a system that educates 1/8 of the students in the United States. The United States will have a very uneducated population in the future.

By: SkippingDog

SkippingDog — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:55:15 +0000

Many of those “useless bureaucrat managers” work at facilities such as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or the Los Alamos National Laboratory, but recognizing that basic fact is apparently unrelated to a good anti-government rant.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:30:43 +0000

Oh,

No Raggednetti’s……refreshing!

By: Donkey

Donkey — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 01:35:21 +0000

What an absolute disgusting ratio of management to faculty!! 🙂