California's $24 billion budget shortfall will have a profound impact on the 2 million adult education students in the state. State officials will institute blanket cuts in daily attendance funding for adult schools and charge-for the first time-tuition fees for high school equivalency and ESL students. While the fees are relatively modest-$20 to $35 per class-the move signals, yet again, the desperate measures officials are taking to make up the deficit.
The budgetary boondoggle is slowly stripping California of it's mantle of the "land of opportunity." As The Chron's Chip Johnson states: "It's a pretty sad state of affairs to watch state officials anchored with a $25 billion deficit do all it can to lay the pain on the doorsteps of those with the least resources to fight back.."
More from Mr. Johnson on this development here.
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