I was in the state Capitol last Thursday, March Fourth, along with thousands of my fellow students, faculty, administrators and allies to support the refunding of Public Education. (That's me in the hat, holding up the N in a giant sign that read SAVE PUBLIC EDUCATION.) We were supporting the states return to California's Master Plan- whereby the state pledged support for free higher education for California's students. They have strayed from that plan. Constricted in part by a deadlock in the state senate, California has cut funding for public education, and people came out in mass Thursday to speak out against the trend. One of the best speakers at the Rally was George Lakoff, a professor at Berkeley, who began the drive that has resulted in the Californian's For Democracy Act- a ballot initiative that will change the votes needed by the state senate to raise taxes and/or pass the budget from the currently needed 2/3 majority, to a simple majority of 1/2. I encourage everyone to sign the petition for the ballot initiative. Currently, the initiative needs just over 550,000 more signatures before April 1st to make it onto the next election cycle. Click the title of the post to be taken to the website.
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