(CALMATTERS) – Middle-class families will likely bear the brunt of budget cuts under an agreement reached by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature to patch the state’s $54 billion deficit, while the neediest Californians are largely spared.
Unless the federal government supplies billions of dollars in aid by Oct. 1, state employee salaries will be slashed by 10% and the University of California and California State University systems will take a combined $602 million hit — likely leading to an eventual tuition hike on families who don’t qualify for financial aid, CalMatters’ Laurel Rosenhall reports.
However, California’s K-12 schools and community colleges will not suffer most of the cuts Newsom proposed last month.
And Calbright, the state’s online-only community college, will live to see another day despite demands from lawmakers to cut its funding entirely.
“This is a multiyear framework,” Newsom said Monday.
