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Labor's Edge Articles by Jim Miller
3/12/10
On The Road: Update from the March for California’s Future for the Week of March 8th
by Jim Miller
We are marching because we are witnessing the destruction of the California Dream. Our state ranks 47th in per pupil spending on education for K-12 and 45th for community colleges. Our CSU and UC systems, once affordable ladders to opportunity for the working and middle classes, are now increasingly unaffordable. We are marching because of these grim realities, but the march, thus far, has been full of hope.