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For months there has been a tremendous amount weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth over the budgetary devastation to Higher Education in LA.  Anyone who didn’t buy the sky-is-falling routine was told that they “didn’t understand.”

We were told that the only thing that could save Higher Ed from Third World status was a massive tax increase on the middle class working people of LA.   The tax effort failed.

They said

Friday, Public Affairs Research Council (”PAR”) released this post lege session comment on Higher Ed:

It remains to be seen how the budget cuts to higher education will be implemented and just how detrimental they will be to the state’s culture and economic promise.

He said

Thursday, Bobby Jindal released this post-session comment on Higher Ed:

The finalized budget today represents a 6.98 percent reduction for higher education – not factoring in tuition. Factoring in tuition, this represents a 4.8 percent reduction for higher education. Factoring in all means of finance for higher education, this represents a 2.13 percent reduction for higher education and factoring in restricted items in higher education, this represents a 1.36 percent reduction for higher education.

Management problems

If a reduction of less than 5% in the midst of a global depression/recession, is truly “detrimental” we have a serious management problem in Higher Ed.

When one factors in that there are fewer students, it may have been increase per capita in spending.

Next time, you are told by our public officials that it’s raining, first, make sure they aren’t peeing on your leg.

C.B.