Posted on 06/08/2009 12:38:01 PM PDT by SmithL
Lawmakers are considering new proposals from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to allow community college districts flexibility to use more part-time instructors as part of the state's massive budget-cutting efforts.
The options, if adopted by districts, are meant to help campuses maintain a quality education program with less money, said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for Schwarzenegger's Finance Department.
"(We want to) give community college districts greater flexibility to manage with fewer resources and try to weather this fiscal crisis as best they can," Palmer said.
Schwarzenegger has targeted community colleges for about $800 million in budget cuts as the state wrestles with a projected shortfall of $24.3 billion over this fiscal year and next.
The proposals are opposed by community college instructors and their largest union, the California Federation of Teachers, . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Ha! The last time I went into a college administration building I lost count of the people I saw sleeping, BSing and wandering about. Fire some of them.
At least Indians can read, unlike many of our JC "professors."
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