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Indian Valley Record Wednesday, March 23, 2011 7Ad
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Come rain or shine, college over the state to the march.
students and faculty marched This year was the fourth
on the state capitol Monday, year in a row of "March in
March 14, in the annual March" and the numbers
March in March demonstra- stayed true to the previous
tion against budget cuts. The years. In addition, this year's
California Highway Patrol es- protest was a respectful fight
timated between 16,000 and for the future: there was no
20,000 students and faculty at- rioting, slander or violence of
tended this March. any kind. In fact, every per-
This year's focus was on son that was asked to hand
demanding that legislators over the poster stick to a law
place a tax extension on enforcement officer did so
the ballot, which will help with a pleasant attitude.
ease next year's education Trashcans and recycle bins
cuts. Feather River College were used, and organizers
students were among those even had Butte College's
in attendance. The Associa- "Sustainabilibuddies" pick-
tion of Students at Feather ing up the trash that did fall,
River College (ASFRC) despite best efforts. Students
funded five students while made an effort to change
others were bused from all minds, but leave the grounds
"These are difficult times for California,
and there's no way to avoid the
pain of budget cuts. However, if our
community colleges sustain reductions of this
magnitude, we anticipate up to 350,000
students will be turned away next year."
Jack Scott, California Community Colleges Chancellor
as they were, maybe even cut to higher education, with
cleaner, a $500 million cut to Universi-
Gov. Jerry Brown's pro- ty of California schools and
posed budget for the 2011 fis- California state universities
cal year assesses a $1.4 billion and $400 million to community
colleges. California Commu-
nity Colleges Chancellor
Jack Scott said the proposed
cuts hurt colleges' ability to
serve students and would
harm California's economic
recovery.
"These are difficult times
for California, and there's
no way to avoid the pain of
budget cuts," he said. "How-
ever, if our community col-
leges sustain reductions of
this magnitude, we antici-
pate up to 350,000 students
will be turned away next
year."
According to Scott, if just
an additional 2 percent of Cal-
ifornia's population earned
associate degrees and 1 per-
cent of that 2 percent continue
;I
on to earn bachelor's degrees,,:
the state's economy would:
grow by $20 billion. Looking
forward, "Those educated
workers would generate state
and local taxes of $1.2 billion
a year, and 174,000 new jobs
would be created in Califor-
nia," he said.
Protests or rallies have
been effective in the past.4
According to Community.:
College Student Senate
President Lee Fuller, at::
this time last year, then-
Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneg- ;
ger's proposed budget:
asked for a $60 per unit hit,,
at the two-year schools.;
"We rebelled against them:
and got them down to $26,":
Fuller said.
N
cal
schools
to host
science fair
Indian Valley Academy eighth-grader
Mckenna Cook calibrates her rocket
altimeter in a vacuum chamber.
Students from Greenville High School,
Plumas Charter School and the academy
will present between 85 - 100 science
projects tonight in the Greenville gym
from 6 - 8 p.m. Judges include locals and
scientists from Lawrence Livermore
Laboratory. The overall winner will be
awarded $500, thanks to Guy McNett
and Eastern Plumas Health Care District.
Photo by Bill Gimple
School d strct
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socal studes
als
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