Saturday, January 10, 2009

Newsitude

Yudof wants to freeze pay of top UC executives (San Francisco Chronicle)
Faced with a state budget crisis that shows no sign of abating, University of California President Mark Yudof will ask the university's governing Board of Regents to consider freezing the salaries of top administrators and to limit freshman enrollment….

Gosh, I wonder if our board is contemplating freezing our Chancellor's (Raghu Mathur) notoriously ample salary? (About 300K.)

California lowest in adult literacy (The Sacramento Bee)

California, with its huge immigrant population, has the lowest adult literacy of any state, according to a new U.S. Department of Education study, and it's 50 percent worse than it was a decade earlier….

Property tax assessments could plunge across California, worsening fiscal crisis (San Jose Mercury)

California's plunging property values have already clobbered homeowners, but now the trend is promising pain for struggling counties, cities and schools that rely upon property taxes — a downward shift unseen in decades…

This trend isn't good for us in the SOCCCD, 'cause, as a "basic aid" district, we depend on local property taxes.

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