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California's education crisis - Join the group on Current

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One of the great things about how Current works is that if you seea theme in a set of stories, you can make a group out of them. This new group started by JonRaymond is a great example: Education Crisis. The group has a compilation of articles and videos from the recent strikes and protests against fee hikes in the California state university system. Things were particularly bad at UCLA, where a majority of the videos come from.

Students ended their protest on Friday, but many said their fight against a 32% hike in fees was not yet over. In the Bay Area yesterday, students demanded an audience with the President of the UC system and while they didn't get it, it does look like an investigation into allegations of police brutality at Friday's Berkeley protest will take place.

To follow this story as it develops - join JonRaymond's Education Crisis group. Kudos Jon!

FROM THE NEWS BLOG: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/24/californias-education-crisis-join-the-g...

EDUCATION CRISIS GROUP: http://current.com/groups/education-crisis/

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(From the Monday demonstration)
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14 comments // California's education crisis - Join the group on Current

  • southlandsol
  • simall08
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • Really? This is all predictable, you know that right? Education, Health Care cannot be totally commercialized. The end is just this mess that you are getting. We all must turn ourselves to the philosophy of investment and credit instead to just watch the paint dry and be consumed by the dead society of slavery and debt.

    • 3 years ago
  • courage
  • JonRaymond
  • shanklinmike
  • JonRaymond
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      JonRaymond  
    • shanklinmike:

      This is a load of Friedmanite "free market capitalist" bull. The same thing is true of health care. The colleges in this country are overrun now by corporatism. It's not the government that did it. it's the administrations that have a policy of wanting to make money. Education is a liability to them and they do thing like make investments to make money. They raise tuition, cut classes, staff, and teachers and give administrators huge raise and bonuses: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/students. Government intervention is needed. it works in other countries. It's the only thing that does work.

    • 3 years ago
  • JonRaymond
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      JonRaymond  
    • shanklinmike:

      This dipstick says that he government drives up college tuition by giving out loans. But he never explains how that drives up the cost. Furthermore, the government doesn't lend the money. It only guarantees that banks will lend it. So the government is not paying for college in this model. The people pay through bank loans.

      If the government actually subsidized college tuition then that would make college affordable for everyone, because the purpose of government subsidy should not be for banks to profit on people's backs. It should be to educate people. No banks should be involved. Going to college would be based on merit, because government programs are regulated. They would require academic standards to get in, as other countries do. You wouldn't have kids borrowing money to go to party schools. We see that government subsidized education works in other countries. And we already gave the Friedman capitalist free market system a shot. It doesn't work.

    • 3 years ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  

    • I took 2 courses at my state college for continuting education for work and it cost 1000.00 witjhout the text boks 9 years ago. And I live is a state with less costly state tuition.
      Go for it students. This ripping off of the middle class and working class students who want an education needs to stop.

    • 3 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • This is nothing short of the culmination of the corporate takeover of our UC system.

      The students here are waking up to that fact, and they're all very pissed off. I just hope we can coherently gather together to do something about it.

    • 3 years ago
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  
    • Saladin:

      Exactly. Privatize privatize privatize. They have taken over government jobs too and the money goes to the stinking parasite in the middle and the taxpayers pay more and the workerts get less.
      Corporations are destroying the quality of life for the majority of us.

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
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    • As UC Berkeley Investigates Police Brutality Against Students Protesting Fee Hikes, a Report From Inside the Takeover of Wheeler Hall
      http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/24/as_uc_berkeley_investigates_police_brutal...

      The University of California, Berkeley is investigating allegations of police brutality against students and workers protesting fee hikes and budget cuts last week. 40 students were arrested Friday night after campus police entered Wheeler Hall, which the students had taken over earlier in the day. The students were part of a statewide movement protesting the UC Board of Regents decision to raise tuition by 32 percent. Independent journalist Brandon Jourdan, who was embedded with the students inside the occupied building on Friday, files a report for Democracy Now

      "A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police State Dictatorship it's going to get." - Ian Williams Goddard

    • 3 years ago
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